Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: Decrement i_nlink correctly in shmem_rmdir()

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On 12 June 2006, Sergey Vlasov wrote:

> shmem_rmdir() must undo the increment of i_nlink done in
> shmem_get_inode() for directories, otherwise at least
> IN_DELETE_SELF inotify event generation is broken.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>

Thanks: that is consistent with ramfs, seems correct and does no harm.
Though I don't think it affects anything than the fsnotify_inoderemove
i_nlink test in dentry_iput.  I'm a little surprised by that test,
unqualified to say whether that's the right place and way to make an
inoderemove test; but even if it were not, I'd be silly to reject
your fix.  Thanks, I'll sign it off and send it onwards.

Hugh

> ---
>  mm/shmem.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 4c5e68e..bd7bf49 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1780,6 +1780,7 @@ static int shmem_rmdir(struct inode *dir
>  	if (!simple_empty(dentry))
>  		return -ENOTEMPTY;
>  
> +	dentry->d_inode->i_nlink--;
>  	dir->i_nlink--;
>  	return shmem_unlink(dir, dentry);
>  }
> -- 
> 1.4.0.g1658
>