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Re: [RFC v2 2/4] xfs: add verifier check for symlink with append/immutable flags

From: Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
Date: 2018-05-11 02:20:58
Also in: linux-btrfs, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs, lkml

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 04:13:57PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The Linux VFS does not allow a way to set append/immuttable attributes
to symlinks, this is just not possible. If this is detected we can
correct this with xfs_repair, so inform the user.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
index 5ef5f354587e..42dd81ede3d6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_symlink_remote.c
@@ -242,5 +242,10 @@ xfs_symlink_shortform_verify(
 	/* We /did/ null-terminate the buffer, right? */
 	if (*endp != 0)
 		return __this_address;
+
+	/* Immutable and append flags are not allowed on symlinks */
+	if (ip->i_d.di_flags & (XFS_DIFLAG_APPEND | XFS_DIFLAG_IMMUTABLE))
+		return __this_address;
This belongs in xfs_dinode_verify so that it checks all symlinks, not
just the one shortform ones.

--D
+
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
2.17.0

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