This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: delayed-inode: drop pointless BUG_ON in __btrfs_remove_delayed_item() to the 6.1-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: btrfs-delayed-inode-drop-pointless-bug_on-in-__btrfs.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b7a78317b68ebb4dd70a938aac0e099f032dba0d Author: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jan 20 02:22:37 2024 +0100 btrfs: delayed-inode: drop pointless BUG_ON in __btrfs_remove_delayed_item() [ Upstream commit 778e618b8bfedcc39354373c1b072c5fe044fa7b ] There's a BUG_ON checking for a valid pointer of fs_info::delayed_root but it is valid since init_mount_fs_info() and has the same lifetime as fs_info. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c index 1494ce990d298..948104332b4da 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c @@ -420,8 +420,6 @@ static void __btrfs_remove_delayed_item(struct btrfs_delayed_item *delayed_item) delayed_root = delayed_node->root->fs_info->delayed_root; - BUG_ON(!delayed_root); - if (delayed_item->type == BTRFS_DELAYED_INSERTION_ITEM) root = &delayed_node->ins_root; else