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Commit 2988a774 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink



Return -ENOENT from ext[34]_link if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is
0.  Doing otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list,
because we'd wind up with an inode with a non-zero link count on the list,
and it will never get properly cleaned up & removed from the orphan list
before it is freed.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 967bb77c
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