After the rename syscall fails, the unlink syscall triggers a warning in drop_nlink() because the i_nlink value is 0. When unlink succeeds but rename_cat fails in rename, the i_nlink and flags values of the inode of the new dentry should be restored. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+028180f480a74961919c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=028180f480a74961919c Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/dir.c b/fs/hfsplus/dir.c index f5c4b3e31a1c..b489d22409e7 100644 --- a/fs/hfsplus/dir.c +++ b/fs/hfsplus/dir.c @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ static int hfsplus_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry, unsigned int flags) { - int res; + int res, unlinked_new = 0; if (flags & ~RENAME_NOREPLACE) return -EINVAL; @@ -543,8 +543,10 @@ static int hfsplus_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, if (d_really_is_positive(new_dentry)) { if (d_is_dir(new_dentry)) res = hfsplus_rmdir(new_dir, new_dentry); - else + else { res = hfsplus_unlink(new_dir, new_dentry); + unlinked_new = res == 0 && d_inode(new_dentry)->i_flags & S_DEAD; + } if (res) return res; } @@ -554,6 +556,12 @@ static int hfsplus_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, new_dir, &new_dentry->d_name); if (!res) new_dentry->d_fsdata = old_dentry->d_fsdata; + else if (unlinked_new) { + struct inode *inode = d_inode(new_dentry); + set_nlink(inode, inode->i_nlink + 1); + inode->i_flags &= ~S_DEAD; + } + return res; } -- 2.43.0