From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 198301] ext4 fails to create symlink if target length is greater than block size (but smaller than PATH_MAX) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:22:09 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: linux-ext4@kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org ([198.145.29.98]:33880 "EHLO mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbeAMXWL (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:22:11 -0500 Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3094228B0E for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:22:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198301 Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilg | |er.ca --- Comment #3 from Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) --- Hi Josh, did you actually test if this patch works with a symlink longer than a single block? The existing slow symlink code is only written to handle a single block, so just removing the check doesn't fix that. There would also need to be a new INCOMPATIBLE feature flag added, so that the kernel and e2fsck know that there are symlink a longer than a single block. Otherwise they would consider the link corrupted. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.