Hi Amir, I love your patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on linus/master] [also build test ERROR on v5.1-rc7 next-20190503] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Amir-Goldstein/fsnotify-fix-unli... config: riscv-tinyconfig (attached as .config) compiler: riscv64-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.1.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # save the attached .config to linux build tree GCC_VERSION=8.1.0 make.cross ARCH=riscv If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp(a)intel.com&gt; All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): In file included from fs///attr.c:15: include/linux/fsnotify.h: In function 'fsnotify_nameremove': if (!(d_inode(parent)->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_DELETE) && ^~ !(dentry->d_sb->s_fsnotify_mask & FS_DELETE)) ^~ vim +179 include/linux/fsnotify.h 153 154 /* 155 * fsnotify_nameremove - a filename was removed from a directory 156 * 157 * This is mostly called under parent vfs inode lock so name and 158 * dentry->d_parent should be stable. However there are some corner cases where 159 * inode lock is not held. So to be on the safe side and be reselient to future 160 * callers and out of tree users of d_delete(), we do not assume that d_parent 161 * and d_name are stable and we use dget_parent() and 162 * take_dentry_name_snapshot() to grab stable references. 163 */ 164 static inline void fsnotify_nameremove(struct dentry *dentry, int isdir) 165 { 166 struct dentry *parent; 167 struct name_snapshot name; 168 __u32 mask = FS_DELETE; 169 170 /* d_delete() of pseudo inode? (e.g. __ns_get_path() playing tricks) */ 171 if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) 172 return; 173 174 if (isdir) 175 mask |= FS_ISDIR; 176 177 parent = dget_parent(dentry); 178 /* Avoid unneeded take_dentry_name_snapshot() */ 181 goto out_dput; 182 183 take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, dentry); 184 185 fsnotify(d_inode(parent), mask, d_inode(dentry), FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE, 186 name.name, 0); 187 188 release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name); 189 190 out_dput: 191 dput(parent); 192 } 193 --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation