There appears to be a race between silly-rename files being created/removed and various userspace tools iterating over the contents of a directory, leading to such errors as: find: './kernel/.tmp_cpio_dir/include/dt-bindings/reset/.__afs2080': No such file or directory tar: ./include/linux/greybus/.__afs3C95: File removed before we read it when building a kernel. Fix afs_readdir() so that it doesn't return .__afsXXXX silly-rename files to userspace. This doesn't stop them being looked up directly by name as we need to be able to look them up from within the kernel as part of the silly-rename algorithm. Fixes: 79ddbfa500b3 ("afs: Implement sillyrename for unlink and rename") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/afs/dir.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c index 3f73d61f7c8a..eface67ccc06 100644 --- a/fs/afs/dir.c +++ b/fs/afs/dir.c @@ -474,6 +474,14 @@ static int afs_dir_iterate_block(struct afs_vnode *dvnode, continue; } + /* Don't expose silly rename entries to userspace. */ + if (nlen > 6 && + dire->u.name[0] == '.' && + ctx->actor != afs_lookup_filldir && + ctx->actor != afs_lookup_one_filldir && + memcmp(dire->u.name, ".__afs", 6) == 0) + continue; + /* found the next entry */ if (!dir_emit(ctx, dire->u.name, nlen, ntohl(dire->u.vnode),