ext4: Limit number of links that can be created by ext4_link()

(cherry picked from commit b05ab1dc3795e6f997fb0d34f38fce5012533c3e)

In ext4_link we need to check using EXT4_LINK_MAX, and not
EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(), since ext4_link() is creating hard links of
regular files, and not directories.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit is contained in:
Theodore Ts'o
2009-08-29 21:08:08 -04:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 929c711219
commit e4670b394d

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@@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ static int ext4_link(struct dentry *old_dentry,
struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
int err, retries = 0;
if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(inode))
if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
return -EMLINK;
/*