This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fuse: nlookup missing decrement in fuse_direntplus_link to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fuse-nlookup-missing-decrement-in-fuse_direntplus_link.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b8bd342d50cbf606666488488f9fea374aceb2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ruanmeisi <ruan.meisi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:13:54 +0800 Subject: fuse: nlookup missing decrement in fuse_direntplus_link From: ruanmeisi <ruan.meisi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b8bd342d50cbf606666488488f9fea374aceb2d5 upstream. During our debugging of glusterfs, we found an Assertion failed error: inode_lookup >= nlookup, which was caused by the nlookup value in the kernel being greater than that in the FUSE file system. The issue was introduced by fuse_direntplus_link, where in the function, fuse_iget increments nlookup, and if d_splice_alias returns failure, fuse_direntplus_link returns failure without decrementing nlookup https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/pull/4081 Signed-off-by: ruanmeisi <ruan.meisi@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 0b05b18381ee ("fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.9 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/dir.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/fuse/dir.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c @@ -1314,8 +1314,16 @@ retry: dput(dentry); dentry = alias; } - if (IS_ERR(dentry)) + if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { + if (!IS_ERR(inode)) { + struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode); + + spin_lock(&fc->lock); + fi->nlookup--; + spin_unlock(&fc->lock); + } return PTR_ERR(dentry); + } } if (fc->readdirplus_auto) set_bit(FUSE_I_INIT_RDPLUS, &get_fuse_inode(inode)->state); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ruan.meisi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/fuse-nlookup-missing-decrement-in-fuse_direntplus_link.patch