This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Btrfs: fix btrfs_evict_inode to handle abnormal inodes correctly to the 4.15-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-fix-btrfs_evict_inode-to-handle-abnormal-inodes-correctly.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e8f1bc1493855e32b7a2a019decc3c353d94daf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:02:53 -0700 Subject: Btrfs: fix btrfs_evict_inode to handle abnormal inodes correctly From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e8f1bc1493855e32b7a2a019decc3c353d94daf6 upstream. This regression is introduced in commit 3d48d9810de4 ("btrfs: Handle uninitialised inode eviction"). There are two problems, a) it is ->destroy_inode() that does the final free on inode, not ->evict_inode(), b) clear_inode() must be called before ->evict_inode() returns. This could end up hitting BUG_ON(inode->i_state != (I_FREEING | I_CLEAR)); in evict() because I_CLEAR is set in clear_inode(). Fixes: commit 3d48d9810de4 ("btrfs: Handle uninitialised inode eviction") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.7-rc6+ Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -5266,7 +5266,7 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *ino trace_btrfs_inode_evict(inode); if (!root) { - kmem_cache_free(btrfs_inode_cachep, BTRFS_I(inode)); + clear_inode(inode); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-btrfs_evict_inode-to-handle-abnormal-inodes-correctly.patch queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-crash-due-to-not-cleaning-up-tree-log-block-s-dirty-bits.patch queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-use-after-free-on-root-orphan_block_rsv.patch queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-extent-state-leak-from-tree-log.patch queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-unexpected-eexist-when-creating-new-inode.patch queue-4.15/btrfs-fix-deadlock-in-run_delalloc_nocow.patch