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-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 0e5fb225007c..469f90d56051 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2367,8 +2367,10 @@ static int shmem_rename2(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, struc
if (new_dentry->d_inode) {
(void) shmem_unlink(new_dir, new_dentry);
- if (they_are_dirs)
+ if (they_are_dirs) {
+ drop_nlink(new_dentry->d_inode);
drop_nlink(old_dir);
+ }
} else if (they_are_dirs) {
drop_nlink(old_dir);
inc_nlink(new_dir);