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    Fix directory hardlinks from deleted directories · be629c62
    David Woodhouse authored
    
    
    When a directory is deleted, we don't take too much care about killing off
    all the dirents that belong to it — on the basis that on remount, the scan
    will conclude that the directory is dead anyway.
    
    This doesn't work though, when the deleted directory contained a child
    directory which was moved *out*. In the early stages of the fs build
    we can then end up with an apparent hard link, with the child directory
    appearing both in its true location, and as a child of the original
    directory which are this stage of the mount process we don't *yet* know
    is defunct.
    
    To resolve this, take out the early special-casing of the "directories
    shall not have hard links" rule in jffs2_build_inode_pass1(), and let the
    normal nlink processing happen for directories as well as other inodes.
    
    Then later in the build process we can set ic->pino_nlink to the parent
    inode#, as is required for directories during normal operaton, instead
    of the nlink. And complain only *then* about hard links which are still
    in evidence even after killing off all the unreachable paths.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarLiu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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