This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fuse: don't unhash root to the 5.4-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-don-t-unhash-root.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 82dc6b1c14b9413bda118a23192fc0cc56c57e3b Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 28 16:50:49 2024 +0100 fuse: don't unhash root [ Upstream commit b1fe686a765e6c0d71811d825b5a1585a202b777 ] The root inode is assumed to be always hashed. Do not unhash the root inode even if it is marked BAD. Fixes: 5d069dbe8aaf ("fuse: fix bad inode") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.11 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h index b7bd2e623c3f3..676bc4a191afb 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h @@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ static inline u64 fuse_get_attr_version(struct fuse_conn *fc) static inline void fuse_make_bad(struct inode *inode) { - remove_inode_hash(inode); set_bit(FUSE_I_BAD, &get_fuse_inode(inode)->state); } diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c index f3d712decb57c..287e850fbd644 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c +++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c @@ -313,8 +313,11 @@ struct inode *fuse_iget(struct super_block *sb, u64 nodeid, } else if ((inode->i_mode ^ attr->mode) & S_IFMT) { /* Inode has changed type, any I/O on the old should fail */ fuse_make_bad(inode); - iput(inode); - goto retry; + if (inode != d_inode(sb->s_root)) { + remove_inode_hash(inode); + iput(inode); + goto retry; + } } fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);