linux-kernel - Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs

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Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:42:38 -0800
From:   Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs

> Sure, but not many people are going to be running a 4.14 kernel with
> a 2007 system.  

It's not just root, but any disk. People could well have 10 year old
disks.

> Could you please run the updated find command to see
> whether this is an isolated case, or if it is a common case:
> 
> find / -type l -size -60c -print0 | xargs -0r ls -dils | awk '$2 != 0 { print }'

Pretty much all symlinks on / hit it. / has 1278 symlinks total, and 
1218 match the line above.

-Andi