[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 02/58] fs/ntfs3: Modified fix directory element type detection

Sasha Levin
2024-02-13T00:18:41Z

[ Upstream commit 22457c047ed971f2f2e33be593ddfabd9639a409 ]

Unfortunately reparse attribute is used for many purposes (several dozens).
It is not possible here to know is this name symlink or not.
To get exactly the type of name we should to open inode (read mft).
getattr for opened file (fstat) correctly returns symlink.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/ntfs3/dir.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
index ec0566b322d5..22ede4da0450 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
@@ -309,11 +309,31 @@ static inline int ntfs_filldir(struct ntfs_sb_info *sbi, struct ntfs_inode *ni,
return 0;
}

- /* NTFS: symlinks are "dir + reparse" or "file + reparse" */
- if (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT)
- dt_type = DT_LNK;
- else
- dt_type = (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) ? DT_DIR : DT_REG;
+ /*
+ * NTFS: symlinks are "dir + reparse" or "file + reparse"
+ * Unfortunately reparse attribute is used for many purposes (several dozens).
+ * It is not possible here to know is this name symlink or not.
+ * To get exactly the type of name we should to open inode (read mft).
+ * getattr for opened file (fstat) correctly returns symlink.
+ */
+ dt_type = (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) ? DT_DIR : DT_REG;
+
+ /*
+ * It is not reliable to detect the type of name using duplicated information
+ * stored in parent directory.
+ * The only correct way to get the type of name - read MFT record and find ATTR_STD.
+ * The code below is not good idea.
+ * It does additional locks/reads just to get the type of name.
+ * Should we use additional mount option to enable branch below?
+ */
+ if ((fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT) &&
+ ino != ni->mi.rno) {
+ struct inode *inode = ntfs_iget5(sbi->sb, &e->ref, NULL);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) {
+ dt_type = fs_umode_to_dtype(inode->i_mode);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
+ }

return !dir_emit(ctx, (s8 *)name, name_len, ino, dt_type);
}
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2.43.0