Hello, with 5.4.0-rc7 and 4.9.200 we see the following errors with mkdir or touch on a ocfs2 mountpoint: root@s2:/shared/ClusterShareDisk# mkdir dir mkdir: cannot create directory Ądirą: Invalid argument which produces this output: root@s2:/shared/ClusterShareDisk# dmesg [ 6918.815770] (mkdir,19461,0):ocfs2_xa_set:2242 ERROR: status = -22 [ 6918.815772] (mkdir,19461,0):ocfs2_mknod:408 ERROR: status = -22 [ 6918.816215] (mkdir,19461,0):ocfs2_mknod:486 ERROR: status = -22 [ 6918.816216] (mkdir,19461,0):ocfs2_mkdir:652 ERROR: status = -22 We got some ACLs: $ getfacl /shared/ClusterShareDisk/ getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: shared/ClusterShareDisk/ # owner: root # group: root user::rwx user:admin:rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:admin:rwx default:group::rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::--- And of course it is mounted with user_xattr and acl option. Reverting commit 56e94ea132bb5c2c1d0b60a6aeb34dcb7d71a53d Author: Jia-Ju Bai Date: Sun Oct 6 17:57:50 2019 -0700 fs: ocfs2: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry() fixes the problem. Greetings, Thomas