[PATCH 6.1 CANDIDATE 07/19] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

Leah Rumancik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.xfs-stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Cheng Lin <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2b99e410b28f5a75ae417e6389e767c7745d6fce ]

When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
return error, to avoid corruption propagation.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <[email protected]>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 909085269227..1d32823d5099 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -917,10 +917,17 @@ xfs_init_new_inode(
 static int			/* error */
 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));
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
 
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