tmpfs: fix link accounting when a tmpfile is linked in
tmpfs has a peculiarity of accounting hard links as if they were separate inodes: so that when the number of inodes is limited, as it is by default, a user cannot soak up an unlimited amount of unreclaimable dcache memory just by repeatedly linking a file. But when v3.11 added O_TMPFILE, and the ability to use linkat() on the fd, we missed accommodating this new case in tmpfs: "df -i" shows that an extra "inode" remains accounted after the file is unlinked and the fd closed and the actual inode evicted. If a user repeatedly links tmpfiles into a tmpfs, the limit will be hit (ENOSPC) even after they are deleted. Just skip the extra reservation from shmem_link() in this case: there's a sense in which this first link of a tmpfile is then cheaper than a hard link of another file, but the accounting works out, and there's still good limiting, so no need to do anything more complicated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182134370.7035@eggly.anvils Fixes: f4e0c30c ("allow the temp files created by open() to be linked to") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@gmail.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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