From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 2ac56d3d4bd625450a54d4c3f9292d58f6b88232 upstream. If we create a CRC filesystem, mount it, and create a symlink with a path long enough that it can't live in the inode, we get a very strange result upon remount: # ls -l mnt total 4 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 929 Jun 15 16:58 link -> XSLM XSLM is the V5 symlink block header magic (which happens to be followed by a NUL, so the string looks terminated). xfs_readlink_bmap() advanced cur_chunk by the size of the header for CRC filesystems, but never actually used that pointer; it kept reading from bp->b_addr, which is the start of the block, rather than the start of the symlink data after the header. Looks like this problem goes back to v3.10. Fixing this gets us reading the proper link target, again. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c index f622a97a7e33..117a149ee4a7 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ xfs_readlink_bmap( cur_chunk += sizeof(struct xfs_dsymlink_hdr); } - memcpy(link + offset, bp->b_addr, byte_cnt); + memcpy(link + offset, cur_chunk, byte_cnt); pathlen -= byte_cnt; offset += byte_cnt; -- 2.5.0 -- 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