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
