This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: change BUG_ON to assertion when checking for delayed_node root to the 5.10-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-change-bug_on-to-assertion-when-checking-for-d.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6b37003daed956c494b46075c8b86845ad87b16a Author: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jan 20 02:26:32 2024 +0100 btrfs: change BUG_ON to assertion when checking for delayed_node root [ Upstream commit be73f4448b607e6b7ce41cd8ef2214fdf6e7986f ] The pointer to root is initialized in btrfs_init_delayed_node(), no need to check for it again. Change the BUG_ON to assertion. 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 cdfc791b3c405..e2afaa70ae5e5 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c @@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ static void btrfs_release_delayed_inode(struct btrfs_delayed_node *delayed_node) if (delayed_node && test_bit(BTRFS_DELAYED_NODE_INODE_DIRTY, &delayed_node->flags)) { - BUG_ON(!delayed_node->root); + ASSERT(delayed_node->root); clear_bit(BTRFS_DELAYED_NODE_INODE_DIRTY, &delayed_node->flags); delayed_node->count--;