--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -2427,7 +2427,8 @@ void ext4_insert_dentry(struct inode *in struct ext4_filename *fname); static inline void ext4_update_dx_flag(struct inode *inode) { - if (!ext4_has_feature_dir_index(inode->i_sb)) { + if (!ext4_has_feature_dir_index(inode->i_sb) && + ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INDEX)) { /* ext4_iget() should have caught this... */ WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb)); ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);