From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753415AbdKWXbE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:31:04 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:43230 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753394AbdKWXbD (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:31:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:31:01 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andi Kleen , tahsin@google.com, adilger@dilger.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs Message-ID: <20171123233101.GP2482@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20171123203330.GN2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171123222317.bq2v26zm5i2jspui@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171123222317.bq2v26zm5i2jspui@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:23:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:33:30PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I have an older qemu VM image that i sometimes use for testing. It > > stopped booting with 4.13-4.14 because it couldn't run init. > > It uses ext3 for the root file system. > > Hmm, do you know roughly when (what krenel version) this image was > created? We had done quite a lot of research and the belief was > kernels never would create a "slow" symlink which was less than 60 > bytes. The date of the inode is from 2007, the original kernel was 2.6.17 with a 32bit kernel. > Or was this image something that was created manually (e.g., using debugfs)? No, it was installed. -Andi