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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c index f48ffd7a8d3e..1efef69a7f1c 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -191,9 +191,18 @@ xfs_generic_create( xfs_setup_iops(ip); - if (tmpfile) + if (tmpfile) { + /* + * The VFS requires that any inode fed to d_tmpfile must have + * nlink == 1 so that it can decrement the nlink in d_tmpfile. + * However, we created the temp file with nlink == 0 because + * we're not allowed to put an inode with nlink > 0 on the + * unlinked list. Therefore we have to set nlink to 1 so that + * d_tmpfile can immediately set it back to zero. + */ + set_nlink(inode, 1); d_tmpfile(dentry, inode); - else + } else d_instantiate(dentry, inode); xfs_finish_inode_setup(ip); |