On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:59:21PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> e2fsck is validating the target (requiring that it be NUL-terminated at
> i_size, or something a bit different for encrypted symlinks) of slow
> symlinks that use a traditional block list but not ones that use an
> extent tree. As far as I can tell this is simply a bug: there's no
> reason for the representation of the block list to affect how the
> symlink target is validated. And either way the kernel won't create
> symlinks with embedded NULs and will always add a terminating NUL.
>
> Thus, make e2fsck_pass1_check_symlink() start validating the targets of
> extent-based symlinks.
>
> Fixes: 7cadc57780f3 ("e2fsck: Support long symlinks which use extents")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
