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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index d902b413941a..183ed4dae219 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2299,10 +2299,14 @@ static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentr * No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes; * but each new link needs a new dentry, pinning lowmem, and * tmpfs dentries cannot be pruned until they are unlinked. + * But if an O_TMPFILE file is linked into the tmpfs, the + * first link must skip that, to get the accounting right. */ - ret = shmem_reserve_inode(inode->i_sb); - if (ret) - goto out; + if (inode->i_nlink) { + ret = shmem_reserve_inode(inode->i_sb); + if (ret) + goto out; + } dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE; inode->i_ctime = dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME; |