Um, I don't see how this can happen. If the ea_inode is in use,
i_count will be greater than zero, and hence the inode will never be
go down the rest of the path in inode_lru_inode():
if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count) ||
...) {
list_lru_isolate(lru, &inode->i_lru);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
this_cpu_dec(nr_unused);
return LRU_REMOVED;
}
Yes, in the function inode_lru_inode (in case of clearing cache), there has been such inode->i_state check mechanism to avoid double-removing the inode which is being removed by another process. Unluckily, no such similar inode->i_state check mechanism in the function iput_final (in case of removing file), so double-removing inode can still appear.
It looks we need to add some inode->i_state check in iput_final() , if we want to fix this race condition bug.