It is perfectly fine to link a tmpfile back using linkat().
Since tmpfiles are created with a link count of 0 they appear
on the orphan list, upon re-linking the inode has to be removed
from the orphan list again.
Ralph faced a filesystem corruption in combination with overlayfs
due to this bug.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Fixes: 474b93704f ("ubifs: Implement O_TMPFILE")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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