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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:58:49 +0100
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> 
> If overwriting an empty directory with rename, then need to drop the extra
> nlink.

Hmm...  OK, point.  It doesn't actually check for ->i_nlink for directories,
and it only affects the sucker while it (a directory) is opened-but-rmdired,
but yes, it's visible to userland, so...  Applied.