From: Senjin <senjin@hatchling.org>
To: ntfs3@lists.linux.dev
Cc: almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Senjin <senjin@hatchling.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs/ntfs3: fix lseek EINVAL on sparse/compressed files with 64-bit clusters
Date: 13 Jun 2026 20:16:14 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a2dba8ee876a55491e53f7a@mailersend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260613201610.14467-1-senjin@hatchling.org>
When CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER is enabled, sbi->maxbytes_sparse is set
to -1. As a signed loff_t this is -1LL, the most negative value. Any
lseek on a sparse or compressed file passes this as maxsize to
vfs_setpos(), which returns -EINVAL whenever offset > maxsize, and
since -1LL is less than any non-negative offset, every seek fails,
including lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET).
The intent of -1 here appears to be "no limit" (matching the spirit of
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE assigned to sbi->maxbytes and sb->s_maxbytes in the
same block), but the signed type makes it the minimum instead of the
maximum.
Fix by assigning MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to sbi->maxbytes_sparse in the
64-bit cluster path, consistent with the other two limits set there.
Observed on a 16 TB NTFS volume with 0xFFFFFEFF total clusters compiled
with CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER=y. Sequential reads via dd/cp worked
correctly; any lseek call on sparse files returned EINVAL, preventing
archive managers and other tools from random-accessing files on the
volume. The non-64-bit-cluster path correctly sets maxbytes_sparse to
(1ull << (cluster_bits + 32)) - 1, a large positive value.
Signed-off-by: Senjin <senjin@hatchling.org>
---
fs/ntfs3/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/super.c b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
#ifdef CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER
if (clusters >= (1ull << (64 - cluster_bits)))
sbi->maxbytes = -1;
- sbi->maxbytes_sparse = -1;
+ sbi->maxbytes_sparse = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
#else
/* Maximum size for sparse file. */
--
2.x
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