From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49306 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758662AbdLRMBb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:01:31 -0500 Subject: Patch "ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: ak@linux.intel.com, adilger@dilger.ca, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tytso@mit.edu Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:01:02 +0100 Message-ID: <15135984621900@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-support-fast-symlinks-from-ext3-file-systems.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From fc82228a5e3860502dbf3bfa4a9570cb7093cf7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:38:01 -0500 Subject: ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems From: Andi Kleen commit fc82228a5e3860502dbf3bfa4a9570cb7093cf7f upstream. 407cd7fb83c0 (ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks) broke ~10 years old ext3 file systems created by 2.6.17. Any ELF executable fails because the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 fast symlink cannot be read anymore. The patch assumed fast symlinks were created in a specific way, but that's not true on these really old file systems. The new behavior is apparently needed only with the large EA inode feature. Revert to the old behavior if the large EA inode feature is not set. This makes my old VM boot again. Fixes: 407cd7fb83c0 (ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ static int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct */ int ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink(struct inode *inode) { + if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EA_INODE_FL)) { + int ea_blocks = EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl ? + EXT4_CLUSTER_SIZE(inode->i_sb) >> 9 : 0; + + if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) + return 0; + + return (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_blocks - ea_blocks == 0); + } return S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_size && (inode->i_size < EXT4_N_BLOCKS * 4); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ak@linux.intel.com are queue-4.14/x86-boot-compressed-64-print-error-if-5-level-paging-is-not-supported.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-compressed-64-detect-and-handle-5-level-paging-at-boot-time.patch queue-4.14/ext4-support-fast-symlinks-from-ext3-file-systems.patch