On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 07:08:01PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > Ah dentry count of -127 looks... odd. dead + 1... void lockref_mark_dead(struct lockref *lockref) { assert_spin_locked(&lockref->lock); lockref->count = -128; } IOW, a leaked (uncounted) reference to dentry, that got dget() called on it after dentry had been freed. IOW, current->fs->pwd.dentry happens to point to an already freed struct dentry here. Joy... Could you slap spin_lock(¤t->fs->lock); WARN_ON(d_count(current->fs->pwd.dentry) < 0); spin_unlock(¤t->fs->lock); before and after calls of io_issue_sqe() and see if it triggers? We definitely are seeing buggered dentry refcounting here.