Re: [PATCH] xfs: set inode size after creating symlink

[Brian Foster]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:19:12AM -0600, Jeffrey Mitchell wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c
> index 1f43fd7f3209..c835827ae389 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c
> @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ xfs_symlink(
>  		}
>  		ASSERT(pathlen == 0);
>  	}
> +	i_size_write(VFS_I(ip), ip->i_d.di_size);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Create the directory entry for the symlink.
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>