1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index 4df39c4315e1..57402b5f030c 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2191,6 +2191,12 @@ static int ext3_link (struct dentry * old_dentry,
 
         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) +