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-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/namei.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index 4df39c4..57402b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2191,6 +2191,12 @@ static int ext3_link (struct dentry * old_dentry,
if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT3_LINK_MAX)
return -EMLINK;
+ /*
+ * Return -ENOENT if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is 0. Doing
+ * otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list.
+ */
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ return -ENOENT;
retry:
handle = ext3_journal_start(dir, EXT3_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +
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