From f17b6042073e7000a90063f7edbca59a5bd1caa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:43:30 +0530 Subject: fs: Remove i_nlink check from file system link callback Now that VFS check for inode->i_nlink == 0 and returns proper error, remove similar check from file system Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 5485390..e781b7e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2304,13 +2304,6 @@ static int ext4_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, dquot_initialize(dir); - /* - * 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 = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) + EXT4_INDEX_EXTRA_TRANS_BLOCKS); -- cgit v1.1