[PATCH] fs: ext4: fix files seen as symlink during deletion

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Mar 31 16:15:58 CEST 2023


On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 01:15:12PM +0100, Corentin GUILLEVIC wrote:

> The deletion process handles special case for symlinks whose target are
> small enough that it fits in struct ext2_inode.b.symlink. So no block had
> been allocated. But the check of file type wrongly considered regular
> files as symlink. So, no block was freed. So, the EXT4 partition could be
> corrupted because of no free block available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corentin GUILLEVIC <corentin.guillevic at smile.fr>

Applied to u-boot/next, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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