From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/sysv/inode.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sysv/inode.c b/fs/sysv/inode.c index c327d4ee1235..7b3792e5844a 100644 --- a/fs/sysv/inode.c +++ b/fs/sysv/inode.c @@ -161,14 +161,8 @@ void sysv_set_inode(struct inode *inode, dev_t rdev) 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); } -- 2.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html