Instead of referencing the inode from a dentry via dentry->d_inode, use the helper function d_inode(dentry) instead. This is the considered the correct way to access it. Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reported: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211208104454.nhxyvmmn6d2qhpwl@wittgenstein/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>