[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "fix sysvfs symlinks" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    fix sysvfs symlinks

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From dbc9f70b865b6271237700fa11ca287580ab03b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:11:08 -0500
Subject: fix sysvfs symlinks

commit 0ebf7f10d67a70e120f365018f1c5fce9ddc567d upstream.

The thing got broken back in 2002 - sysvfs does *not* have inline
symlinks; even short ones have bodies stored in the first block
of file.  sysv_symlink() handles that correctly; unfortunately,
attempting to look an existing symlink up will end up confusing
them for inline symlinks, and interpret the block number containing
the body as the body itself.

Nobody has noticed until now, which says something about the level
of testing sysvfs gets ;-/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/sysv/inode.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysv/inode.c b/fs/sysv/inode.c
index 590ad92..02fa1dc 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/inode.c
@@ -162,15 +162,8 @@ void sysv_set_inode(struct inode *inode, dev_t rdev)
 		inode->i_fop = &sysv_dir_operations;
 		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
 	} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
-		if (inode->i_blocks) {
-			inode->i_op = &sysv_symlink_inode_operations;
-			inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
-		} else {
-			inode->i_op = &simple_symlink_inode_operations;
-			inode->i_link = (char *)SYSV_I(inode)->i_data;
-			nd_terminate_link(inode->i_link, inode->i_size,
-				sizeof(SYSV_I(inode)->i_data) - 1);
-		}
+		inode->i_op = &sysv_symlink_inode_operations;
+		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysv_aops;
 	} else
 		init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, rdev);
 }
--
1.9.1