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orangefs: set i_size on new symlink
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commit f6a4b4c 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 <ligon@clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Fixes: 71680c1 ("orangefs: Cache getattr results.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hubcap@omnibond.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Martin Brandenburg authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jun 25, 2018
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions fs/orangefs/namei.c
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Expand Up @@ -326,6 +326,13 @@ static int orangefs_symlink(struct inode *dir,
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",
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