xfs: set inode size after creating symlink

Browse source

When XFS creates a new symlink, it writes its size to disk but not to the
VFS inode. This causes i_size_read() to return 0 for that symlink until
it is re-read from disk, for example when the system is rebooted.

I found this inconsistency while protecting directories with eCryptFS.
The command "stat path/to/symlink/in/ecryptfs" will report "Size: 0" if
the symlink was created after the last reboot on an XFS root.

Call i_size_write() in xfs_symlink()

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@starlab.io>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Jeffrey Mitchell 2021-01-22 16:48:20 -08:00 • committed by Darrick J. Wong

parent 8321ddb2fa

commit 8aa921a953

1 changed files with 1 additions and 0 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

1

fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c

View file