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The VFS inc_nlink function does not explicitly check for integer
overflows in the i_nlink field. Instead, it checks the link count
against s_max_links in the vfs_{link,create,rename} functions. XFS
sets the maximum link count to 2.1 billion, so integer overflows should
not be a problem.
However. It's possible that online repair could find that a file has
more than four billion links, particularly if the link count got
corrupted while creating hardlinks to the file. The di_nlinkv2 field is
not large enough to store a value larger than 2^32, so we ought to
define a magic pin value of ~0U which means that the inode never gets
deleted. This will prevent a UAF error if the repair finds this
situation and users begin deleting links to the file.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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