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authorDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>2006-09-30 23:29:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:30 -0700
commitce71ec36840368b877fb63bd14c8e67ab62d08b1 (patch)
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parent17ff785691503f63ec648df82a7fdaece7695561 (diff)
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[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: monitor zeroing of i_nlink
Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero it during an unlink operation. We need to catch these in addition to the decrement operations. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/namei.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index b45c88bd5f73..906731a20f1a 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2045,7 +2045,7 @@ static int ext3_rmdir (struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry)
"empty directory has nlink!=2 (%d)",
inode->i_nlink);
inode->i_version++;
- inode->i_nlink = 0;
+ clear_nlink(inode);
/* There's no need to set i_disksize: the fact that i_nlink is
* zero will ensure that the right thing happens during any
* recovery. */