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    xfs: fix remote symlinks on V5/CRC filesystems · 309c67c5
    Eric Sandeen authored
    commit 2ac56d3d 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: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
    309c67c5
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