This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fix sysvfs symlinks
to the 3.14-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:
fix-sysvfs-symlinks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0ebf7f10d67a70e120f365018f1c5fce9ddc567d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:11:08 -0500
Subject: fix sysvfs symlinks
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0ebf7f10d67a70e120f365018f1c5fce9ddc567d upstream.
The thing got broken back in 2002 - sysvfs does *not* have inline
symlinks; even short ones have bodies stored in the first block
of file. sysv_symlink() handles that correctly; unfortunately,
attempting to look an existing symlink up will end up confusing
them for inline symlinks, and interpret the block number containing
the body as the body itself.
Nobody has noticed until now, which says something about the level
of testing sysvfs gets ;-/
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/sysv/inode.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/sysv/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/inode.c
@@ -161,14 +161,8 @@ void sysv_set_inode(struct inode *inode,
inode->i_fop = &sysv_dir_operations;
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
- if (inode->i_blocks) {
- inode->i_op = &sysv_symlink_inode_operations;
- inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
- } else {
- inode->i_op = &sysv_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
- nd_terminate_link(SYSV_I(inode)->i_data, inode->i_size,
- sizeof(SYSV_I(inode)->i_data) - 1);
- }
+ inode->i_op = &sysv_symlink_inode_operations;
+ inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
} else
init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, rdev);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/fix-sysvfs-symlinks.patch
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