fs: Remove i_nlink check from file system link callback

Now that VFS check for inode->i_nlink == 0 and returns proper
error, remove similar check from file system

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index b27ba71810ec..561f69256266 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);