ea_inodes are using i_version for storing part of the reference count so we really need to leave it alone. The problem can be reproduced by xfstest ext4/026 when iversion is enabled. Fix it by not calling inode_inc_iversion() for EXT4_EA_INODE_FL inodes in ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(). Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 84c0eb55071d..b76554124224 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -5717,7 +5717,12 @@ int ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle_t *handle, } ext4_fc_track_inode(handle, inode); - if (IS_I_VERSION(inode)) + /* + * ea_inodes are using i_version for storing reference count, don't + * mess with it + */ + if (IS_I_VERSION(inode) && + !(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EA_INODE_FL)) inode_inc_iversion(inode); /* the do_update_inode consumes one bh->b_count */ -- 2.35.3