Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs/ntfs3: fixes for directory permission and symlink consistency

[Zhenyan Wang]

After analysis, I found that Patch 2 introduces a regression. The
readlink function treats backslashes in symlinks as literal characters
but they're path separators on Windows so symlinks created under
Windows cannot be traversed.

There is a partial way to fix. Since symlinks created under Windows
wouldn't contain '/', in the readlink function, we may only convert
symlinks without '/' to cover all Windows-created symlinks while
keeping some of Linux-created symlinks shaped like 'a\b/c' unchanged.
But the 'a\b' problem is back again - it isn't fixed because we cannot
distinguish it from Windows-created ones.

So I'm dropping Patch 2/2. Patch 1/2 is unaffected.