On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:02 AM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 06:49:10AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu>
> >> >
> >> > Split out common helper for race free insertion of an already allocated
> >> > inode into the cache.  Use this from iget5_locked() and
> >> > insert_inode_locked4().  Make iget5_locked() use new_inode()/iput() 
> >> > instead
> >> > of alloc_inode()/destroy_inode() directly.
> >>
> >> ... thus hitting the sucker with ->evict_inode(), in condition that is 
> >> quite
> >> likely to be unfit to be seen by that.
> >>
> >> NAK.
> >
> > To clarify: objection here is against the switch to new_inode/iput.  The 
> > rest is
> > sane.  What makes new_inode() better here, anyway?
> 
> Umm, got to look into this.  The patch has already been pulled by
> Linus, but I hope it's salvageable.

Incremental follows.  I think it's cleaner to initialize i_state and i_sb_list
up front (hence the use of new_inode()), but could just as well add to sb list
afterwards.

---
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 0df41bb77e0f..03c0d7c1296f 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1098,8 +1098,10 @@ struct inode *iget5_locked(struct super_block *sb, 
unsigned long hashval,
 
                if (new) {
                        inode = inode_insert5(new, hashval, test, set, data);
-                       if (unlikely(inode != new))
-                               iput(new);
+                       if (unlikely(inode != new)) {
+                               inode_sb_list_del(inode);
+                               destroy_inode(new);
+                       }
                }
        }
        return inode;

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