This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfs-lookup_directory-is-also-ok-with-symlinks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5144a1613a55e6a69b427e39e1f8ce61af8c79db
Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 8 13:38:23 2022 -0500
NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks
[ Upstream commit e0caaf75d443e02e55e146fd75fe2efc8aed5540 ]
Commit ac795161c936 (NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory
fails) [1], part of Linux since 5.17-rc2, introduced a regression, where
a symbolic link on an NFS mount to a directory on another NFS does not
resolve(?) the first time it is accessed:
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: ac795161c936 ("NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Donald Buczek <buczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index f6381c675cbe9..9adc6f57a0083 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1987,14 +1987,14 @@ int nfs_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
if (!res) {
inode = d_inode(dentry);
if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode &&
- !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)))
res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
res = ERR_PTR(-EOPENSTALE);
} else if (!IS_ERR(res)) {
inode = d_inode(res);
if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode &&
- !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+ !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) {
dput(res);
res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
} else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
