On Thu 10-05-18 16:13:58, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > The Linux VFS does not allow a way to set append/immuttable > attributes to symlinks, this is just not possible. If this is > detected inform the user as the filesystem must be corrupted. > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good to me. You can add: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza > --- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c > index 37a2f7a2b66a..6acf0dd6b6e6 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c > @@ -4947,6 +4947,13 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) > inode->i_op = &ext4_dir_inode_operations; > inode->i_fop = &ext4_dir_operations; > } else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) { > + /* VFS does not allow setting these so must be corruption */ > + if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) { > + EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, > + "immutable or append flags not allowed on symlinks"); > + ret = -EFSCORRUPTED; > + goto bad_inode; > + } > if (ext4_encrypted_inode(inode)) { > inode->i_op = &ext4_encrypted_symlink_inode_operations; > ext4_set_aops(inode); > -- > 2.17.0 > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR