This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
smb: client: fix missing mode bits for SMB symlinks
to the 6.1-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-fix-missing-mode-bits-for-smb-symlinks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9ab12c755c1e01616c2dcfea64cf55fb2c382d0b
Author: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Nov 25 23:55:10 2023 -0300
smb: client: fix missing mode bits for SMB symlinks
[ Upstream commit ef22bb800d967616c7638d204bc1b425beac7f5f ]
When instantiating inodes for SMB symlinks, add the mode bits from
@cifs_sb->ctx->file_mode as we already do for the other special files.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/inode.c b/fs/smb/client/inode.c
index 7be51f9d2fa18..5343898bac8a6 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/inode.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/inode.c
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ cifs_unix_basic_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO *info,
fattr->cf_dtype = DT_REG;
break;
case UNIX_SYMLINK:
- fattr->cf_mode |= S_IFLNK;
+ fattr->cf_mode |= S_IFLNK | cifs_sb->ctx->file_mode;
fattr->cf_dtype = DT_LNK;
break;
case UNIX_DIR:
