e2fsck: Fix inode nlink accounting that could cause PROGRAMMING BUG errors
This fixes two possible causes for the error message:
WARNING: PROGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK!
OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM.
inode_link_info[X] is Y, inode.i_links_count is Z. They should be the same!
One cause which can trigger this message is when an inode has an
illegal link count > 65500 --- for example, 65535. This was the case
in the Debian Bug report #555456.
Another cause which could trigger this message is if an ext4 directory
previously had more than 65000 subdirectories (thus causing
i_link_count to be set to 1), but then some of the subdirectories were
deleted, such that i_link_count should now be the actual number of
subdirectories.
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #555456
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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