From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f38a032b165d812b0ba8378a5cd237c0888ff65f upstream. Yup, the VFS hoist broke it, and nobody noticed. Bulkstat workloads make it clear that it doesn't work as it should. Fixes: dae2f8ed7992 ("fs: Lift XFS_IDONTCACHE to the VFS layer") Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 3 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c @@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ xfs_inode_alloc( return NULL; } - /* VFS doesn't initialise i_mode! */ + /* VFS doesn't initialise i_mode or i_state! */ VFS_I(ip)->i_mode = 0; + VFS_I(ip)->i_state = 0; XFS_STATS_INC(mp, vn_active); ASSERT(atomic_read(&ip->i_pincount) == 0); --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ xfs_setup_inode( gfp_t gfp_mask; inode->i_ino = ip->i_ino; - inode->i_state = I_NEW; + inode->i_state |= I_NEW; inode_sb_list_add(inode); /* make the inode look hashed for the writeback code */