Re: [PATCH] ext4: compensate ea_inode refs and free block on new xattr block write error\

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 07:49:05PM -0500, Matthias Goergens wrote:
> Sashiko's reviews on these threads have been genuinely useful — the
> ea_inode refcount leak that this patch follows up on was its find.  This
> one, though, is a false positive: mb_cache_entry_delete_or_get() and
> mb_cache_entry_wait_unused() have been defined in fs/mbcache.c and
> declared in include/linux/mbcache.h since commit 3dc96bba65f5 ("mbcache:
> add functions to delete entry if unused", 2022)

Yeah, I had noticed this and filed a bug against Sashiko.

https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/issues/439

(Filed before github went down.)

					- Ted