This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: Fix creating native symlinks pointing to current or parent directory
to the 6.11-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:
cifs-fix-creating-native-symlinks-pointing-to-curren.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 03753a857ff1f96e6d72f51df5937b45b17b9429
Author: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Oct 5 16:02:56 2024 +0200
cifs: Fix creating native symlinks pointing to current or parent directory
[ Upstream commit 63271b7d569fbe924bccc7dadc17d3d07a4e5f7a ]
Calling 'ln -s . symlink' or 'ln -s .. symlink' creates symlink pointing to
some object name which ends with U+F029 unicode codepoint. This is because
trailing dot in the object name is replaced by non-ASCII unicode codepoint.
So Linux SMB client currently is not able to create native symlink pointing
to current or parent directory on Windows SMB server which can be read by
either on local Windows server or by any other SMB client which does not
implement compatible-reverse character replacement.
Fix this problem in cifsConvertToUTF16() function which is doing that
character replacement. Function comment already says that it does not need
to handle special cases '.' and '..', but after introduction of native
symlinks in reparse point form, this handling is needed.
Note that this change depends on the previous change
"cifs: Improve creating native symlinks pointing to directory".
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
index 79d99a9139441..4cc6e0896fad3 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
@@ -484,10 +484,21 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
/**
* Remap spaces and periods found at the end of every
* component of the path. The special cases of '.' and
- * '..' do not need to be dealt with explicitly because
- * they are addressed in namei.c:link_path_walk().
+ * '..' are need to be handled because of symlinks.
+ * They are treated as non-end-of-string to avoid
+ * remapping and breaking symlinks pointing to . or ..
**/
- if ((i == srclen - 1) || (source[i+1] == '\\'))
+ if ((i == 0 || source[i-1] == '\\') &&
+ source[i] == '.' &&
+ (i == srclen-1 || source[i+1] == '\\'))
+ end_of_string = false; /* "." case */
+ else if (i >= 1 &&
+ (i == 1 || source[i-2] == '\\') &&
+ source[i-1] == '.' &&
+ source[i] == '.' &&
+ (i == srclen-1 || source[i+1] == '\\'))
+ end_of_string = false; /* ".." case */
+ else if ((i == srclen - 1) || (source[i+1] == '\\'))
end_of_string = true;
else
end_of_string = false;
