On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:53:12AM +0800, Chen Li wrote: > > It's possible we try to mknod a dentry, which have > already bound to an inode, just skip it. Caller should have checked may_create(), which includes EEXIST handling. NAKed-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Incidentally, if it ever had been called that way, your variant would leak inode. Not the main problem, though...