[PATCH v3] hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

[Tetsuo Handa]

Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()")
requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/
S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.

Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+f98189ed18c1f5f32e00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f98189ed18c1f5f32e00
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d0a07b1b-8b73-4002-8e29-e2bd56871262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx was
a bit too late to append to previous bug report. ;-)

 fs/hfsplus/super.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/super.c b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
index aaffa9e060a0..7f327b777ece 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/super.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ static int hfsplus_system_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
 		return -EIO;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Assign a dummy file type, for may_open() requires that
+	 * an inode has a valid file type.
+	 */
+	inode->i_mode = S_IFREG;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.47.3