When XFS creates a new symlink, it writes its size to disk but not to the VFS inode. This causes i_size_read() to return 0 for that symlink until it is re-read from disk, for example when the system is rebooted. I found this inconsistency while protecting directories with eCryptFS. The command "stat path/to/symlink/in/ecryptfs" will report "Size: 0" if the symlink was created after the last reboot on an XFS root. Call i_size_write() in xfs_symlink() Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c index 1f43fd7f3209..c835827ae389 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ xfs_symlink( } ASSERT(pathlen == 0); } + i_size_write(VFS_I(ip), ip->i_d.di_size); /* * Create the directory entry for the symlink. -- 2.25.1
