This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fuse: don't WARN when nlink is zero
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fuse-don-t-warn-when-nlink-is-zero.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dfca7cebc2679f3d129f8e680a8f199a7ad16e38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:57:42 +0100
Subject: fuse: don't WARN when nlink is zero
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
commit dfca7cebc2679f3d129f8e680a8f199a7ad16e38 upstream.
drop_nlink() warns if nlink is already zero. This is triggerable by a buggy
userspace filesystem. The cure, I think, is worse than the disease so disable
the warning.
Reported-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -682,7 +682,14 @@ static int fuse_unlink(struct inode *dir
spin_lock(&fc->lock);
fi->attr_version = ++fc->attr_version;
- drop_nlink(inode);
+ /*
+ * If i_nlink == 0 then unlink doesn't make sense, yet this can
+ * happen if userspace filesystem is careless. It would be
+ * difficult to enforce correct nlink usage so just ignore this
+ * condition here
+ */
+ if (inode->i_nlink > 0)
+ drop_nlink(inode);
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
fuse_invalidate_attr(inode);
fuse_invalidate_attr(dir);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/fuse-don-t-warn-when-nlink-is-zero.patch
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