From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> The directories require unique inode numbers but all the eventfs files have the same inode number. Prevent the directories from having the same inode numbers as the files as that can confuse some tooling. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 834bf76add3e6 ("eventfs: Save directory inodes in the eventfs_inode structure") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index 0256afdd4acf..55a40a730b10 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -50,8 +50,12 @@ static struct eventfs_root_inode *get_root_inode(struct eventfs_inode *ei) /* Just try to make something consistent and unique */ static int eventfs_dir_ino(struct eventfs_inode *ei) { - if (!ei->ino) + if (!ei->ino) { ei->ino = get_next_ino(); + /* Must not have the file inode number */ + if (ei->ino == EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO) + ei->ino = get_next_ino(); + } return ei->ino; } -- 2.43.0