[PATCH 6.19 042/844] hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sat Feb 28 2026 - 12:43:58 EST
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6 ]
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+895c23f6917da440ed0d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=895c23f6917da440ed0d
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d0a07b1b-8b73-4002-8e29-e2bd56871262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/hfsplus/super.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/super.c b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
index aaffa9e060a0a..7f327b777ece8 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;
}
--
2.51.0