1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
index 77126821b2e9..47b678d73e7a 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
@@ -669,6 +669,14 @@ struct inode *ext3_orphan_get(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
         if (IS_ERR(inode))
                 goto iget_failed;
 
+        /*
+         * If the orphans has i_nlinks > 0 then it should be able to be
+         * truncated, otherwise it won't be removed from the orphan list
+         * during processing and an infinite loop will result.
+         */
+        if (inode->i_nlink && !ext3_can_truncate(inode))
+                goto bad_orphan;
+
         if (NEXT_ORPHAN(inode) > max_ino)
                 goto bad_orphan;
         brelse(bitmap_bh);
@@ -690,6 +698,7 @@ bad_orphan:
                 printk(KERN_NOTICE "NEXT_ORPHAN(inode)=%u\n",
                        NEXT_ORPHAN(inode));
                 printk(KERN_NOTICE "max_ino=%lu\n", max_ino);
+                printk(KERN_NOTICE "i_nlink=%u\n", inode->i_nlink);
                 /* Avoid freeing blocks if we got a bad deleted inode */
                 if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
                         inode->i_blocks = 0;