This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smb: client: report correct st_size for SMB and NFS symlinks to the 6.6-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: smb-client-report-correct-st_size-for-smb-and-nfs-symlinks.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9d63509547a940225d06d7eba1dc412befae255d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:37:19 -0300 Subject: smb: client: report correct st_size for SMB and NFS symlinks From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9d63509547a940225d06d7eba1dc412befae255d upstream. We can't rely on FILE_STANDARD_INFORMATION::EndOfFile for reparse points as they will be always zero. Set it to symlink target's length as specified by POSIX. This will make stat() family of syscalls return the correct st_size for such files. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/smb/client/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/smb/client/inode.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/inode.c @@ -823,6 +823,8 @@ static void cifs_open_info_to_fattr(stru out_reparse: if (S_ISLNK(fattr->cf_mode)) { + if (likely(data->symlink_target)) + fattr->cf_eof = strnlen(data->symlink_target, PATH_MAX); fattr->cf_symlink_target = data->symlink_target; data->symlink_target = NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.6/cifs-fix-falloc_fl_zero_range-by-setting-i_size-if-eof-moved.patch queue-6.6/cifs-fix-falloc_fl_insert_range-by-setting-i_size-after-eof-moved.patch queue-6.6/smb-client-report-correct-st_size-for-smb-and-nfs-symlinks.patch queue-6.6/smb-client-fix-missing-mode-bits-for-smb-symlinks.patch