From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2b99e410b28f5a75ae417e6389e767c7745d6fce ] When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode, return error, to avoid corruption propagation. Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -919,6 +919,13 @@ xfs_droplink( xfs_trans_t *tp, xfs_inode_t *ip) { + if (VFS_I(ip)->i_nlink == 0) { + xfs_alert(ip->i_mount, + "%s: Attempt to drop inode (%llu) with nlink zero.", + __func__, ip->i_ino); + return -EFSCORRUPTED; + } + xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, ip, XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG); drop_nlink(VFS_I(ip)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/xfs-allow-read-io-and-ficlone-to-run-concurrently.patch queue-6.1/xfs-hoist-freeing-of-rt-data-fork-extent-mappings.patch queue-6.1/xfs-make-sure-maxlen-is-still-congruent-with-prod-when-rounding-down.patch queue-6.1/xfs-only-remap-the-written-blocks-in-xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent.patch queue-6.1/xfs-dquot-recovery-does-not-validate-the-recovered-dquot.patch queue-6.1/xfs-clean-up-dqblk-extraction.patch queue-6.1/xfs-abort-intent-items-when-recovery-intents-fail.patch queue-6.1/xfs-up-ic_sema-if-flushing-data-device-fails.patch queue-6.1/xfs-fix-internal-error-from-agfl-exhaustion.patch queue-6.1/xfs-factor-out-xfs_defer_pending_abort.patch queue-6.1/xfs-fix-units-conversion-error-in-xfs_bmap_del_extent_delay.patch queue-6.1/xfs-bump-max-fsgeom-struct-version.patch queue-6.1/xfs-handle-nimaps-0-from-xfs_bmapi_write-in-xfs_alloc_file_space.patch queue-6.1/xfs-rt-stubs-should-return-negative-errnos-when-rt-disabled.patch queue-6.1/xfs-clean-up-fs_xflag_realtime-handling-in-xfs_ioctl_setattr_xflags.patch queue-6.1/xfs-respect-the-stable-writes-flag-on-the-rt-device.patch queue-6.1/xfs-introduce-protection-for-drop-nlink.patch queue-6.1/xfs-prevent-rt-growfs-when-quota-is-enabled.patch queue-6.1/xfs-inode-recovery-does-not-validate-the-recovered-inode.patch