From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

link(2) on directory is banned in VFS.

Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c~xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c~xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link
+++ a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -2603,8 +2603,6 @@ xfs_link(
 	vn_trace_entry(src_vp, __FUNCTION__, (inst_t *)__return_address);
 
 	target_namelen = VNAMELEN(dentry);
-	if (VN_ISDIR(src_vp))
-		return XFS_ERROR(EPERM);
 
 	sip = xfs_vtoi(src_vp);
 	tdp = XFS_BHVTOI(target_dir_bdp);
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