Hello, syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue: WARNING in ovl_create_real overlayfs: negative dentry after mkdir (cgroup2) ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10918 at fs/overlayfs/dir.c:218 ovl_create_real.cold+0x80/0x1e3 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:216 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 10918 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.14.0-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:ovl_create_real.cold+0x80/0x1e3 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:218 Code: 37 00 48 c1 e0 2a 48 89 da 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 81 90 c3 f8 48 8b 33 48 c7 c7 20 0f c4 89 e8 90 73 f9 ff <0f> 0b 4c 89 e5 49 c7 c4 fb ff ff ff e9 5f c7 bb f9 e8 fc 4f 7c f8 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000cd47958 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000030 RBX: ffffffff8b9bea20 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880131c3900 RSI: ffffffff815dcd38 RDI: fffff520019a8f1d RBP: ffff88806ee38d38 R08: 0000000000000030 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffff815d6ade R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88806ee38d38 R13: 0000000000004000 R14: ffff88806dd2ed90 R15: ffff88806dd2ee70 FS: 00007fb3f7195700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055e370d81a70 CR3: 000000002184a000 CR4: 00000000001506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ovl_workdir_create+0x3a9/0x5b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:790 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1364 [inline] ovl_get_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1511 [inline] ovl_fill_super+0x199a/0x5fb0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:2067 mount_nodev+0x60/0x110 fs/super.c:1414 legacy_get_tree+0x105/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:610 vfs_get_tree+0x89/0x2f0 fs/super.c:1498 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2988 [inline] path_mount+0x1320/0x1fa0 fs/namespace.c:3318 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3331 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3539 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3516 [inline] __x64_sys_mount+0x27f/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3516 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x4665e9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fb3f7195188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000056bf80 RCX: 00000000004665e9 RDX: 00000000200000c0 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 000000000040000d RBP: 00000000004bfcc4 R08: 0000000020000100 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000056bf80 R13: 00007ffd2744f94f R14: 00007fb3f7195300 R15: 0000000000022000 Tested on: commit: 4b93c544 thunderbolt: test: split up test cases in tb_.. git tree: upstream console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13249aed300000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6f8c28906b7bb02d dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=75eab84fd0af9e8bf66b compiler: gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.1 patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=10fc0943300000