Merge tag 'v4.4.177' into toradex_vf_4.4-nextColibri-VF_LXDE-Image_2.8b6.183-20190331

This is the 4.4.177 stable release

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index d902b413941a..f11aec40f2e1 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2293,16 +2293,20 @@ static int shmem_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
 static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = d_inode(old_dentry);
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * 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;