Re: Commit "new primitive: discard_new_inode()" introduces a problem

[Rafael David Tinoco]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:34:08PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 07:19:35PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > On 01.08.2018 19:16, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 06:43:56PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > >>> #git status
> > >>> HEAD detached at 22dc9a168272
> > >>
> > >> Wait a sec - just that commit?  With discard_new_inode() not even
> > >> used anywhere?  Then any of those -ENOMEM is disguised ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)
> > >> from find_inode()/find_inode_fast(), i.e. an inode found by
> > >> iget5_locked() (your /etc is on ext4) with I_CREATING still set.
> > > 
> > > iget_locked(), that is.
> 
> OK, I see what's going on there.  See if this fixes the problem:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index 0e8e5de3c48a..b11f566bcd66 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ void d_instantiate_new(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode)
>  	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
>  	__d_instantiate(entry, inode);
>  	WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_NEW));
> -	inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW;
> +	inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW & ~I_CREATING;
>  	smp_mb();
>  	wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW);
>  	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);

It fixes the issue.

Results: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3957#c10

Tested-by: Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!