From 7523a2de6d789ce1b8f5601f9305ccfa68924c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 17:02:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup commit 7e936b737211e6b54e34b71a827e56b872e958d8 upstream. A hard-linked directory to its parent can cause the VFS to deadlock, and is a sign of a corrupted file system. So detect this case in ext4_lookup(), before the rmdir() lockup scenario can take place. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed