The patch titled Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: always read both high and low parts of dinode link count has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-always-read-both-high-and-low-parts-of-dinode-link-count.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-always-read-both-high-and-low-parts-of-dinode-link-count.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Asemov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: always read both high and low parts of dinode link count Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:46:38 +0300 When filesystem is using indexed-dirs feature, maximum link count values can spill over to i_links_count_hi, up to OCFS2_DX_LINK_MAX links. ocfs2_read_links_count() checks for OCFS2_INDEXED_DIR_FL flag in dinode, but this flag is only valid for directories so for files the check causes high part of the link count not being read back from file dinodes resulting in wrong link count value when file has >65535 links. As ocfs2_set_links_count() always writes both high and low parts of link count, the flag check on reading may be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cbfca02b-b39f-89de-e1a8-904a6c60407e@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexey Asemov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h~ocfs2-always-read-both-high-and-low-parts-of-dinode-link-count +++ a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h @@ -560,8 +560,7 @@ static inline unsigned int ocfs2_read_li u32 nlink = le16_to_cpu(di->i_links_count); u32 hi = le16_to_cpu(di->i_links_count_hi); - if (di->i_dyn_features & cpu_to_le16(OCFS2_INDEXED_DIR_FL)) - nlink |= (hi << OCFS2_LINKS_HI_SHIFT); + nlink |= (hi << OCFS2_LINKS_HI_SHIFT); return nlink; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from alex@xxxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-always-read-both-high-and-low-parts-of-dinode-link-count.patch