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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-01-29 18:43:30 +0530
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-15 02:21:44 -0400
commitf17b6042073e7000a90063f7edbca59a5bd1caa2 (patch)
treee893485df882c770da602030c6c1098b11ea3d56 /fs/ext3
parentaae8a97d3ec30788790d1720b71d76fd8eb44b73 (diff)
downloadlinux-f17b6042073e7000a90063f7edbca59a5bd1caa2.tar.bz2
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 <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/namei.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index b27ba71810ec..561f69256266 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2253,13 +2253,6 @@ static int ext3_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 = ext3_journal_start(dir, EXT3_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +
EXT3_INDEX_EXTRA_TRANS_BLOCKS);