Commit aae8a97d authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Al Viro

fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file

Add inode->i_nlink == 0 check in VFS. Some of the file systems
do this internally. A followup patch will remove those instance.
This is needed to ensure that with link by handle we don't allow
to create hardlink of an unlinked file. The check also prevent a race
between unlink and link
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent becfd1f3
......@@ -2906,6 +2906,10 @@ int vfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *new_de
return error;
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
/* Make sure we don't allow creating hardlink to an unlinked file */
if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
error = -ENOENT;
else
error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
if (!error)
......
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