directory create and delete operations. If it ever finds a directory
with a link count less than 2, it panics. Thus, an rm -rf that
encounters a directory with a link count below 2 causes a kernel
panic. The proposed fix is to return the error EINVAL rather than
panicing. The effect is that the requested operation is not done,
but the system continues to run. At a more convenient later time,
the filesystem can be unmounted and cleaned (with fsck or journal
run). Once cleaned, the operation can be rerun to successful
completion.
This fix takes that approach. The panic message has been converted
into a uprintf(9) to provide the user with the inode number and
filesystem mount point of the offending directory and EINVAL is
returned for the operation.
The long (three year) delay in fixing this problem occurred because
the bug was misclassified when originally assigned and only this week
was found during a sweep of old unresolved bug reports.
PR: 180894
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
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