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smb: client: preserve leading slash for POSIX absolute symlink targets
authorSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Sun, 5 Jul 2026 21:04:09 +0000 (16:04 -0500)
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Mon, 6 Jul 2026 12:59:14 +0000 (07:59 -0500)
When creating a native SMB symbolic link (CIFS_SYMLINK_TYPE_NATIVE) whose
target is an absolute path on a mount that uses POSIX paths, the leading
path separator was silently dropped from the stored symlink target.

create_native_symlink() converted the target to UTF-16 with
cifs_convert_path_to_utf16().  That helper was intended for share-relative
SMB paths and therefore unconditionally strips a leading path separator.
For an absolute POSIX symlink target the leading '/' is significant, so a
target of "/foo/bar" was stored and read back as "foo/bar", even
though the reparse point was still flagged as absolute
(SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE cleared).

On a POSIX paths mount the symlink target is stored verbatim, so convert
it directly with cifs_strndup_to_utf16() instead.  This preserves the
leading separator, avoids the leading-backslash stripping that
cifs_convert_path_to_utf16() also performs (a backslash is a valid POSIX
filename character), and uses NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD to match the readback path
in smb2_parse_native_symlink(), which always converts the target with
cifs_strndup_from_utf16() / NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD.  This mirrors how the NFS and
WSL reparse symlink creators convert their targets.

The NT-style absolute symlink handling, which needs the "\??\" prefix and
drive-letter colon preserved, continues to use cifs_convert_path_to_utf16()
together with the existing masking of those bytes.

Fixes: 12b466eb52d9 ("cifs: Fix creating and resolving absolute NT-style symlinks")
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Acked-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
fs/smb/client/reparse.c

index cd1e1eaee67a6b372f46abc74b13175fe4f3623c..5cc5b0410d4894bd9014329ea65a3e85e322e557 100644 (file)
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
        char *sym = NULL;
        struct kvec iov;
        bool directory;
+       int path_len;
        int rc = 0;
 
        if (strlen(symname) > REPARSE_SYM_PATH_MAX)
@@ -168,7 +169,21 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
        if (!(sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/')
                sym[0] = sym[1] = sym[2] = sym[5] = '_';
 
-       path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(sym, cifs_sb);
+       /*
+        * On a POSIX paths mount the symlink target is stored verbatim, so
+        * convert it with cifs_strndup_to_utf16().  cifs_convert_path_to_utf16()
+        * must not be used here: it strips a leading path separator (it is
+        * meant for share-relative SMB paths), which would corrupt an absolute
+        * POSIX symlink target such as "/foo/bar".  Using NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD also
+        * matches the readback path in smb2_parse_native_symlink().
+        */
+       if (sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS)
+               path = cifs_strndup_to_utf16(sym, strlen(sym), &path_len,
+                                            cifs_sb->local_nls,
+                                            NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD);
+       else
+               path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(sym, cifs_sb);
+
        if (!path) {
                rc = -ENOMEM;
                goto out;