6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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));