Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 24 2017 - 20:42:50 EST


> 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