linux-ext4 - [PATCH 43/50] ext4: remove reference to I

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Message-ID: <ed4673380176f640f0d33201387999207dc1426a.1755806649.git.josef@toxicpanda.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:18:54 -0400
From: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
	brauner@...nel.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Subject: [PATCH 43/50] ext4: remove reference to I_FREEING in inode.c

Instead of checking I_FREEING, simply check the i_count reference to see
if this inode is going away.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 7674c1f614b1..3950e19cf862 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	 * For inodes with journalled data, transaction commit could have
 	 * dirtied the inode. And for inodes with dioread_nolock, unwritten
 	 * extents converting worker could merge extents and also have dirtied
-	 * the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING flag but
-	 * we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists.
+	 * the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because the of the 0 i_count
+	 * but we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists.
 	 */
 	if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list))
 		inode_io_list_del(inode);
@@ -4581,7 +4581,7 @@ int ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	 * or it's a completely new inode. In those cases we might not
 	 * have i_rwsem locked because it's not necessary.
 	 */
-	if (!(inode->i_state & (I_NEW|I_FREEING)))
+	if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW) && refcount_read(&inode->i_count) > 0)
 		WARN_ON(!inode_is_locked(inode));
 	trace_ext4_truncate_enter(inode);
 
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2.49.0