When there's a problem accessing the EA part of an inline data symlink and we want to truncate the symlink back to 60 characters (hoping the user can re-establish the link later on, apparently) be sure to turn off the inline data flag to convert the symlink back to a regular fast symlink. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- e2fsck/pass1.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/e2fsck/pass1.c b/e2fsck/pass1.c index 2c5fca6..8c66c6d 100644 --- a/e2fsck/pass1.c +++ b/e2fsck/pass1.c @@ -1327,6 +1327,8 @@ void e2fsck_pass1(e2fsck_t ctx) ctx->flags |= E2F_FLAG_ABORT; goto endit; } + if (LINUX_S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) + inode->i_flags &= ~EXT4_INLINE_DATA_FL; e2fsck_write_inode(ctx, ino, inode, "pass1"); failed_csum = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html