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ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems
authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 4 Dec 2017 01:38:01 +0000 (20:38 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 4 Dec 2017 01:38:01 +0000 (20:38 -0500)
commitfc82228a5e3860502dbf3bfa4a9570cb7093cf7f
tree9dfe39f22ba0b989290f6b124c9c94283d469bf2
parentae64f9bd1d3621b5e60d7363bc20afb46aede215
ext4: support fast symlinks from ext3 file systems

407cd7fb83c0 (ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks)
broke ~10 years old ext3 file systems created by 2.6.17. Any ELF
executable fails because the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 fast symlink
cannot be read anymore.

The patch assumed fast symlinks were created in a specific way,
but that's not true on these really old file systems.

The new behavior is apparently needed only with the large EA inode
feature.

Revert to the old behavior if the large EA inode feature is not set.

This makes my old VM boot again.

Fixes: 407cd7fb83c0 (ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
fs/ext4/inode.c