AFFS symbolic links were broken since kernel 2.6.29
Problem was bisected to the following
commit
ebd09abbd969 ("vfs: ensure page symlinks are NUL-terminated")
commit
035146851cfa ("vfs: introduce helper function to safely
NUL-terminate symlinks")
AFFS wasn't setting inode size when reading symbolic link from disk or
creating a new one. Result was zero allocation in pagecache.
ln -s file symlink
ls -lrt
file
symlink ->
This patch adds inode isize information on inode get and symbolic link
addition.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
inode->i_fop = &affs_file_operations;
break;
case ST_SOFTLINK:
+ inode->i_size = strlen((char *)AFFS_HEAD(bh)->table);
inode->i_mode |= S_IFLNK;
inode_nohighmem(inode);
inode->i_op = &affs_symlink_inode_operations;
symname++;
}
*p = 0;
+ inode->i_size = i + 1;
mark_buffer_dirty_inode(bh, inode);
affs_brelse(bh);
mark_inode_dirty(inode);