Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
---
  fs/ntfs3/record.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/record.c b/fs/ntfs3/record.c
index 53629b1f65e9..7b6423584eae 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/record.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/record.c
@@ -535,8 +535,20 @@ bool mi_remove_attr(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct 
mft_inode *mi,
          return false;

      if (ni && is_attr_indexed(attr)) {
-        le16_add_cpu(&ni->mi.mrec->hard_links, -1);
-        ni->mi.dirty = true;
+        u16 links = le16_to_cpu(ni->mi.mrec->hard_links);
+        struct ATTR_FILE_NAME *fname =
+            attr->type != ATTR_NAME ?
+                NULL :
+                resident_data_ex(attr,
+                         SIZEOF_ATTRIBUTE_FILENAME);
+        if (fname && fname->type == FILE_NAME_DOS) {
+            /* Do not decrease links count deleting DOS name. */
+        } else if (!links) {
+            /* minor error. Not critical. */
+        } else {
+            ni->mi.mrec->hard_links = cpu_to_le16(links - 1);
+            ni->mi.dirty = true;
+        }
      }

      used -= asize;
-- 
2.34.1