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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 83e92bab79a6..33be51a2ddb7 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2906,7 +2906,11 @@ int vfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *new_de return error; mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); - error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry); + /* Make sure we don't allow creating hardlink to an unlinked file */ + if (inode->i_nlink == 0) + error = -ENOENT; + else + error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); if (!error) fsnotify_link(dir, inode, new_dentry); |