1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 5485390d32c5..e781b7ea5630 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2304,13 +2304,6 @@ static int ext4_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 = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +
                                         EXT4_INDEX_EXTRA_TRANS_BLOCKS);