1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 478e587087fe..89b81eedce6a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -69,15 +69,6 @@ xfs_inode_alloc(
         ASSERT(!spin_is_locked(&ip->i_flags_lock));
         ASSERT(completion_done(&ip->i_flush));
 
-        /*
-         * initialise the VFS inode here to get failures
-         * out of the way early.
-         */
-        if (!inode_init_always(mp->m_super, VFS_I(ip))) {
-                kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
-                return NULL;
-        }
-
         /* initialise the xfs inode */
         ip->i_ino = ino;
         ip->i_mount = mp;
@@ -113,6 +104,20 @@ xfs_inode_alloc(
 #ifdef XFS_DIR2_TRACE
         ip->i_dir_trace = ktrace_alloc(XFS_DIR2_KTRACE_SIZE, KM_NOFS);
 #endif
+        /*
+        * Now initialise the VFS inode. We do this after the xfs_inode
+        * initialisation as internal failures will result in ->destroy_inode
+        * being called and that will pass down through the reclaim path and
+        * free the XFS inode. This path requires the XFS inode to already be
+        * initialised. Hence if this call fails, the xfs_inode has already
+        * been freed and we should not reference it at all in the error
+        * handling.
+        */
+        if (!inode_init_always(mp->m_super, VFS_I(ip)))
+                return NULL;
+
+        /* prevent anyone from using this yet */
+        VFS_I(ip)->i_state = I_NEW|I_LOCK;
 
         return ip;
 }