HFS implements hardlink by using indirect catalog entries that refer to a hidden directly. The link target is cached in the dev field in the HFS+ specific inode, which is also used for the device number for device files, and inside for passing the nlink value of the indirect node from hfsplus_cat_write_inode to a helper function. Now if we happen to write out the indirect node while hfsplus_link is creating the catalog entry we'll get a link pointing to the linkid of the current nlink value. This can easily be reproduced by a large enough loop of local git-clone operations. Stop abusing the dev field in the HFS+ inode for short term storage by refactoring the way the permission structure in the catalog entry is set up, and rename the dev field to linkid to avoid any confusion. While we're at it also prevent creating hard links to special files, as the HFS+ dev and linkid share the same space in the on-disk structure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/dir.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/hfsplus/dir.c 2010-10-11 19:35:00.719004014 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/dir.c 2010-10-11 20:01:06.023253839 +0200 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ again: if (IS_ERR(inode)) return ERR_CAST(inode); if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) - HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev = linkid; + HFSPLUS_I(inode)->linkid = linkid; out: d_add(dentry, inode); return NULL; @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ static int hfsplus_link(struct dentry *s if (HFSPLUS_IS_RSRC(inode)) return -EPERM; + if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + return -EPERM; mutex_lock(&sbi->vh_mutex); if (inode->i_ino == (u32)(unsigned long)src_dentry->d_fsdata) { @@ -268,7 +270,7 @@ static int hfsplus_link(struct dentry *s if (res != -EEXIST) goto out; } - HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev = id; + HFSPLUS_I(inode)->linkid = id; cnid = sbi->next_cnid++; src_dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)(unsigned long)cnid; res = hfsplus_create_cat(cnid, src_dir, &src_dentry->d_name, inode); Index: linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/hfsplus/inode.c 2010-10-11 19:35:00.725012325 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/inode.c 2010-10-11 20:01:06.934260195 +0200 @@ -267,7 +267,13 @@ static void hfsplus_set_perms(struct ino perms->mode = cpu_to_be16(inode->i_mode); perms->owner = cpu_to_be32(inode->i_uid); perms->group = cpu_to_be32(inode->i_gid); - perms->dev = cpu_to_be32(HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev); + + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + perms->dev = cpu_to_be32(inode->i_nlink); + else if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode)) + perms->dev = cpu_to_be32(inode->i_rdev); + else + perms->dev = 0; } static int hfsplus_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) @@ -491,7 +497,7 @@ int hfsplus_cat_read_inode(struct inode type = hfs_bnode_read_u16(fd->bnode, fd->entryoffset); - HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev = 0; + HFSPLUS_I(inode)->linkid = 0; if (type == HFSPLUS_FOLDER) { struct hfsplus_cat_folder *folder = &entry.folder; @@ -595,10 +601,6 @@ int hfsplus_cat_write_inode(struct inode hfs_bnode_read(fd.bnode, &entry, fd.entryoffset, sizeof(struct hfsplus_cat_file)); hfsplus_inode_write_fork(inode, &file->data_fork); - if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) - HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev = inode->i_nlink; - if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) - HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev = kdev_t_to_nr(inode->i_rdev); hfsplus_set_perms(inode, &file->permissions); if ((file->permissions.rootflags | file->permissions.userflags) & HFSPLUS_FLG_IMMUTABLE) file->flags |= cpu_to_be16(HFSPLUS_FILE_LOCKED); Index: linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c 2010-10-11 19:35:00.741004643 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c 2010-10-11 20:01:06.916256284 +0200 @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int hfsplus_cat_build_record(hfsp file->user_info.fdCreator = cpu_to_be32(HFSP_HFSPLUS_CREATOR); file->user_info.fdFlags = cpu_to_be16(0x100); file->create_date = HFSPLUS_I(sbi->hidden_dir)->create_date; - file->permissions.dev = cpu_to_be32(HFSPLUS_I(inode)->dev); + file->permissions.dev = cpu_to_be32(HFSPLUS_I(inode)->linkid); } return sizeof(*file); } Index: linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h 2010-10-11 19:35:00.753011697 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h 2010-10-11 20:02:12.131299866 +0200 @@ -178,7 +178,11 @@ struct hfsplus_inode_info { */ struct inode *rsrc_inode; __be32 create_date; - u32 dev; + + /* + * Protected by sbi->vh_mutex. + */ + u32 linkid; /* * Protected by i_mutex. @@ -427,6 +431,4 @@ static inline struct hfsplus_inode_info #define hfsp_ut2mt(t) __hfsp_ut2mt((t).tv_sec) #define hfsp_now2mt() __hfsp_ut2mt(get_seconds()) -#define kdev_t_to_nr(x) (x) - #endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html