This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled afs: Revert "afs: Hide silly-rename files from userspace" 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: afs-revert-afs-hide-silly-rename-files-from-userspac.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 3efeeff4c21de6f503439e33d4a86cd3194ad82b Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 13 11:08:41 2024 +0000 afs: Revert "afs: Hide silly-rename files from userspace" [ Upstream commit 0aec3847d044273733285dcff90afda89ad461d2 ] This reverts commit 57e9d49c54528c49b8bffe6d99d782ea051ea534. This undoes the hiding of .__afsXXXX silly-rename files. The problem with hiding them is that rm can't then manually delete them. This also reverts commit 5f7a07646655fb4108da527565dcdc80124b14c4 ("afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing") as that's a bugfix for the above. Fixes: 57e9d49c5452 ("afs: Hide silly-rename files from userspace") Reported-by: Markus Suvanto <markus.suvanto@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2024-February/008102.html Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3085695.1710328121@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c index c4e22e9f7a666..cec18f9f8bd7a 100644 --- a/fs/afs/dir.c +++ b/fs/afs/dir.c @@ -492,16 +492,6 @@ 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) { - ctx->pos = blkoff + next * sizeof(union afs_xdr_dirent); - continue; - } - /* found the next entry */ if (!dir_emit(ctx, dire->u.name, nlen, ntohl(dire->u.vnode),