Re: [PATCH v1] ntfs: report birth time for symbolic links

[liubaolin]

在 2026/10/14 09:18, Xuewen Wang 写道:
> NTFS already loads the creation time into i_crtime and reports it through
> ntfs_getattr(). However, the symbolic-link inode operations omit getattr,
> so statx() with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW falls back to generic_fillattr() and
> does not return STATX_BTIME for the link itself.
>
> Use ntfs_getattr() for symbolic links to expose their stored creation time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xuewen Wang <wangxuewen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Tested in QEMU with WSL and native symlinks, including dangling links and
> links to directories. Birth times survive inode cache eviction, remounts
> and a fresh boot. Queries that follow a link still report the target's
> creation time.
>
>   fs/ntfs/file.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
> index 58afd310d57b..58aad7f5c6c5 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
> @@ -1556,6 +1556,7 @@ const struct inode_operations ntfs_file_inode_ops = {
>   const struct inode_operations ntfs_symlink_inode_operations = {
>   	.get_link	= ntfs_get_link,
>   	.setattr	= ntfs_setattr,
> +	.getattr	= ntfs_getattr,
>   	.listxattr	= ntfs_listxattr,
>   	.fileattr_get	= ntfs_fileattr_get,
>   	.fileattr_set	= ntfs_fileattr_set,

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>