1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index 9dba3bd69d9..0521a007ae6 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2253,13 +2253,6 @@ static int ext3_link (struct dentry * old_dentry,
 
         dquot_initialize(dir);
 
-        /*
-         * 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) +
                                         EXT3_INDEX_EXTRA_TRANS_BLOCKS);