From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Becky Ligon , Martin Brandenburg , hubcap@omnibond.com Subject: [PATCH 4.9 36/39] orangefs: set i_size on new symlink Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:24:23 +0800 Message-Id: <20180624152356.058664220@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180624152352.038950449@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180624152352.038950449@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Martin Brandenburg commit f6a4b4c9d07dda90c7c29dae96d6119ac6425dca upstream. As long as a symlink inode remains in-core, the destination (and therefore size) will not be re-fetched from the server, as it cannot change. The original implementation of the attribute cache assumed that setting the expiry time in the past was sufficient to cause a re-fetch of all attributes on the next getattr. That does not work in this case. The bug manifested itself as follows. When the command sequence touch foo; ln -s foo bar; ls -l bar is run, the output was lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 4906 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo However, after a re-mount, ls -l bar produces lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 3 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo After this commit, even before a re-mount, the output is lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 3 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo Reported-by: Becky Ligon Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg Fixes: 71680c18c8f2 ("orangefs: Cache getattr results.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: hubcap@omnibond.com Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/orangefs/namei.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/fs/orangefs/namei.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/namei.c @@ -312,6 +312,13 @@ static int orangefs_symlink(struct inode ret = PTR_ERR(inode); goto out; } + /* + * This is necessary because orangefs_inode_getattr will not + * re-read symlink size as it is impossible for it to change. + * Invalidating the cache does not help. orangefs_new_inode + * does not set the correct size (it does not know symname). + */ + inode->i_size = strlen(symname); gossip_debug(GOSSIP_NAME_DEBUG, "Assigned symlink inode new number of %pU\n",