1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index e5a74a5ac261..05c0d7f8fdf9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2189,6 +2189,12 @@ static int ext4_link (struct dentry * old_dentry,
 
         if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT4_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 = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb) +