[ Upstream commit 88149082bb8ef31b289673669e080ec6a00c2e59 ] If generic_drop_inode() returns true, it means iput_final() can evict this inode regardless of whether it is dirty or not. If we check I_DONTCACHE in generic_drop_inode(), any inode with this bit set will be evicted unconditionally. This is not the desired behavior because I_DONTCACHE only means the inode shouldn't be cached on the LRU list. As for whether we need to evict this inode, this is what generic_drop_inode() should do. This patch corrects the usage of I_DONTCACHE. This patch was proposed in [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200831003407.GE12096@dread.disaster.area/ Fixes: dae2f8ed7992 ("fs: Lift XFS_IDONTCACHE to the VFS layer") Signed-off-by: Hao Li <lihao2018.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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