The patch titled
     return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     return-enoent-from-ext3_link-when-racing-with-unlink.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Return -ENOENT from ext[34]_link if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is
0.  Doing otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list,
because we'd wind up with an inode with a non-zero link count on the list,
and it will never get properly cleaned up & removed from the orphan list
before it is freed.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/ext3/namei.c |    6 ++++++
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff -puN fs/ext3/namei.c~return-enoent-from-ext3_link-when-racing-with-unlink 
fs/ext3/namei.c
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c~return-enoent-from-ext3_link-when-racing-with-unlink
+++ a/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2191,6 +2191,12 @@ static int ext3_link (struct dentry * ol
 
        if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT3_LINK_MAX)
                return -EMLINK;
+       /*
+        * Return -ENOENT if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is 0.  Doing
+        * otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list.
+        */
+       if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+               return -ENOENT;
 
 retry:
        handle = ext3_journal_start(dir, EXT3_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +
diff -puN fs/ext4/namei.c~return-enoent-from-ext3_link-when-racing-with-unlink 
fs/ext4/namei.c
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c~return-enoent-from-ext3_link-when-racing-with-unlink
+++ a/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2189,6 +2189,12 @@ static int ext4_link (struct dentry * ol
 
        if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
                return -EMLINK;
+       /*
+        * Return -ENOENT if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is 0.  Doing
+        * otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list.
+        */
+       if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+               return -ENOENT;
 
 retry:
        handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch

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