CIFS servers process nlink counts differently for files and directories. In cifs_rename() if we the request fails on the existing target, we try to remove it through cifs_unlink() but this is not what we want to do for directories. As the result the following sequence of commands mkdir {1,2}; mv -T 1 2; rmdir {1,2}; mkdir {1,2}; echo foo > 2/bar and XFS test generic/023 fail with -ENOENT error. That's why the second mkdir reuses the existing inode (target inode of the mv -T command) with S_DEAD flag. Fix this by checking whether the target is directory or not and calling cifs_rmdir() rather than cifs_unlink() for directories. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c index 949ec90..7899a40 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c @@ -1720,7 +1720,10 @@ cifs_rename2(struct inode *source_dir, struct dentry *source_dentry, unlink_target: /* Try unlinking the target dentry if it's not negative */ if (target_dentry->d_inode && (rc == -EACCES || rc == -EEXIST)) { - tmprc = cifs_unlink(target_dir, target_dentry); + if (d_is_dir(target_dentry)) + tmprc = cifs_rmdir(target_dir, target_dentry); + else + tmprc = cifs_unlink(target_dir, target_dentry); if (tmprc) goto cifs_rename_exit; rc = cifs_do_rename(xid, source_dentry, from_name, -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html