This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled isofs: handle CDs with bad root inode but good Joliet root directory to the 5.10-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: isofs-handle-cds-with-bad-root-inode-but-good-joliet.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 299228c9538ed0e93aea5834aa57696316a270f9 Author: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 7 19:21:32 2024 -0700 isofs: handle CDs with bad root inode but good Joliet root directory [ Upstream commit 4243bf80c79211a8ca2795401add9c4a3b1d37ca ] I have a CD copy of the original Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game from 2001. The disc mounts without error on Windows, but on Linux mounting fails with the message "isofs_fill_super: get root inode failed". The error originates in isofs_read_inode, which returns -EIO because de_len is 0. The superblock on this disc appears to be intentionally corrupt as a form of copy protection. When the root inode is unusable, instead of giving up immediately, try to continue with the Joliet file table. This fixes the Ghost Recon CD and probably other copy-protected CDs too. Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20240208022134.451490-1-alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/isofs/inode.c b/fs/isofs/inode.c index f62b5a5015668..4c763f573faf3 100644 --- a/fs/isofs/inode.c +++ b/fs/isofs/inode.c @@ -907,8 +907,22 @@ static int isofs_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent) * we then decide whether to use the Joliet descriptor. */ inode = isofs_iget(s, sbi->s_firstdatazone, 0); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - goto out_no_root; + + /* + * Fix for broken CDs with a corrupt root inode but a correct Joliet + * root directory. + */ + if (IS_ERR(inode)) { + if (joliet_level && sbi->s_firstdatazone != first_data_zone) { + printk(KERN_NOTICE + "ISOFS: root inode is unusable. " + "Disabling Rock Ridge and switching to Joliet."); + sbi->s_rock = 0; + inode = NULL; + } else { + goto out_no_root; + } + } /* * Fix for broken CDs with Rock Ridge and empty ISO root directory but