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

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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index ba91bd0f7916..f27c8164c1fe 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@ 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;
 
         /*