Unlinking an open file then crashing

Unlinking an open file then crashing I want to start by stating that I don't have any issues that I'm trying to resolve other than a hypothesis. And I could RTFC, but there's a lot of filesystem code that I'd have to familiarize myself with ;)
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After a system crash there will be one of two conditions: either the journal will be recovered or fsck will be run. Did you seen Clearing orphaned inode XXXXX messages it's printing on boot? This is exactly your case: an inode that is not referenced from anywhere in the filesystem.