Re: [PATCH v6] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 10 2023 - 02:57:35 EST


On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:09:01AM +0800, cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
> return error, to avoid corruption propagation.

I know this has been through a few cycles, but wouldn't it be useful
to have at least a little description here how that case could happen?