Andreas Dilger 14cfb25eaf ext4: check fast symlink for ea_inode correctly ...

commit b4cc4a4077 upstream.

The check for a fast symlink in the presence of only an
external xattr inode is incorrect.  If a fast symlink does
not have an xattr block (i_file_acl == 0), but does have
an external xattr inode that increases inode i_blocks, then
the check for a fast symlink will incorrectly fail and
__ext4_iget()->ext4_ind_check_inode() will report the inode
is corrupt when it "validates" i_data[] on the next read:

    # ln -s foo /mnt/tmp/bar
    # setfattr -h -n trusted.test \
               -v "$(yes | head -n 4000)" /mnt/tmp/bar
    # umount /mnt/tmp
    # mount /mnt/tmp
    # ls -l /mnt/tmp
    ls: cannot access '/mnt/tmp/bar': Structure needs cleaning
    total 4
     ? l?????????? ? ?    ?        ?            ? bar
    # dmesg | tail -1
    EXT4-fs error (device dm-8): __ext4_iget:5098:
        inode #24578: block 7303014: comm ls: invalid block

(note that "block 7303014" = 0x6f6f66 = "foo" in LE order).

ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink() should check the superblock
EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE feature flag, not the inode
EXT4_EA_INODE_FL, since the latter is only set on the xattr
inode itself, and not on the inode that uses this xattr.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fc82228a5e ("ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Dongyang <dongyangli@ddn.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Zhuravlev <bzzz@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <green@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/59879
Lustre-bug-id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-19121
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717063709.757077-1-adilger@dilger.ca
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2025-08-28 16:30:55 +02:00

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