NFS: Avoid changing nlink when file removes and attribute updates race

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If a file removal races with another operation that updates its
attributes, then skip the change to nlink, and just mark the attributes
as being stale.

Reported-by: Aiden Lambert <alambert48@gatech.edu>
Fixes: 59a707b0d4 ("NFS: Ensure we revalidate the inode correctly after remove or rename")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Trond Myklebust 2025-11-17 15:28:17 -05:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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