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

Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-10T06:57:35Z

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:09:01AM +0800, cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn wrote:
> From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn>
>
> 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?