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-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs3/dir.c30
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
index d4d9f4ffb6d9..c2fb76bb28f4 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c
@@ -309,11 +309,31 @@ static inline int ntfs_filldir(struct ntfs_sb_info *sbi, struct ntfs_inode *ni,
return 0;
}
- /* NTFS: symlinks are "dir + reparse" or "file + reparse" */
- if (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT)
- dt_type = DT_LNK;
- else
- dt_type = (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) ? DT_DIR : DT_REG;
+ /*
+ * NTFS: symlinks are "dir + reparse" or "file + reparse"
+ * Unfortunately reparse attribute is used for many purposes (several dozens).
+ * It is not possible here to know is this name symlink or not.
+ * To get exactly the type of name we should to open inode (read mft).
+ * getattr for opened file (fstat) correctly returns symlink.
+ */
+ dt_type = (fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) ? DT_DIR : DT_REG;
+
+ /*
+ * It is not reliable to detect the type of name using duplicated information
+ * stored in parent directory.
+ * The only correct way to get the type of name - read MFT record and find ATTR_STD.
+ * The code below is not good idea.
+ * It does additional locks/reads just to get the type of name.
+ * Should we use additional mount option to enable branch below?
+ */
+ if ((fname->dup.fa & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT) &&
+ ino != ni->mi.rno) {
+ struct inode *inode = ntfs_iget5(sbi->sb, &e->ref, NULL);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) {
+ dt_type = fs_umode_to_dtype(inode->i_mode);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
+ }
return !dir_emit(ctx, (s8 *)name, name_len, ino, dt_type);
}