The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 00ee8b60102862f4daf0814d12a2ea2744fc0b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:41:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix directory size calculation for symlinks
We have to account the name of the symlink and not the target length.
Fixes: ca7f85be8d6c ("ubifs: Add support for encrypted symlinks")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/dir.c b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
index 9da224d4f2da..e8616040bffc 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -1123,8 +1123,7 @@ static int ubifs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
struct ubifs_inode *ui;
struct ubifs_inode *dir_ui = ubifs_inode(dir);
struct ubifs_info *c = dir->i_sb->s_fs_info;
- int err, len = strlen(symname);
- int sz_change = CALC_DENT_SIZE(len);
+ int err, sz_change, len = strlen(symname);
struct fscrypt_str disk_link;
struct ubifs_budget_req req = { .new_ino = 1, .new_dent = 1,
.new_ino_d = ALIGN(len, 8),
@@ -1151,6 +1150,8 @@ static int ubifs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
if (err)
goto out_budg;
+ sz_change = CALC_DENT_SIZE(fname_len(&nm));
+
inode = ubifs_new_inode(c, dir, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
err = PTR_ERR(inode);
