From 7e6135fe7b483cd85e28789d70e09cc91064be95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:41:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nfsctl: symlink has no business bumping link count of parent
 directory

mkdir should incrment the parent's refcount; symlink should not.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index bc6b776fc6575..282b961d87883 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1181,7 +1181,6 @@ static int __nfsd_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	inode->i_size = strlen(content);
 
 	d_add(dentry, inode);
-	inc_nlink(dir);
 	fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.47.3