[PATCH] squashfs: Fix sqfs_inode_size() for xattr related SQFS_LSYMLINK_TYPE
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Sat Jan 18 17:43:24 CET 2025
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:49:04 +0100, nvbolhuis at gmail.com wrote:
> A squashfs filesystem with extended attributes (xattrs) may have
> inodes of type SQFS_LSYMLINK_TYPE. This might cause u-boot to fail to
> handle the filesystem since it assumes a SYMLINK_TYPE and LSYMLINK_TYPE
> inode are the same size. This is wrong, see:
> https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/blob/master/squashfs-tools/read_fs.c#L421
>
> Using the mksquashfs '-no-xattrs' argument is probably best, but the
> mksquashfs '-xattrs' argument is the default.
> This patch fixes squashfs image handling by making sure parsing the
> uncompressed inode_table (with sqfs_find_inode) succeeeds. The only change
> needed is correctly determining the size of a SQFS_LSYMLINK_TYPE inode.
>
> [...]
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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