Patch "xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

to the 6.1-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:
     xfs-introduce-protection-for-drop-nlink.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


From [email protected] Wed Jan 29 19:47:49 2025
From: Leah Rumancik <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:47:05 -0800
Subject: xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Cheng Lin <[email protected]>, "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>, Chandan Babu R <[email protected]>, Leah Rumancik <[email protected]>
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]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 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 [email protected] 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