ext4: Allow rename to create more than EXT4_LINK_MAX subdirectories

(cherry picked from commit 2c94eb86c66e1eaaa1e7d8a2120f4fad5e7e7736)

Use EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX so that rename() can move a directory into new
parent directory without running into the EXT4_LINK_MAX limit.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index de04013d16ffd3825a28cb21dc92995e3818226a..9d51ab9dd9da80af7ac7c165685aca9d403a9f84 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                        goto end_rename;
                retval = -EMLINK;
                if (!new_inode && new_dir != old_dir &&
-                               new_dir->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
+                   EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(new_dir))
                        goto end_rename;
        }
        if (!new_bh) {