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For a very very long time, inode inactivation has set the inode size to zero before unmapping the extents associated with the data fork. Unfortunately, commit3c6f46eacdchanged the inode verifier to prohibit zero-length symlinks and directories. If an inode happens to get logged in this state and the system crashes before freeing the inode, log recovery will also fail on the broken inode. Therefore, allow zero-size symlinks and directories as long as the link count is zero; nobody will be able to open these files by handle so there isn't any risk of data exposure. Fixes:3c6f46eacd("xfs: sanity check directory inode di_size") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.