From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 09:39:33 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

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@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=895c23f6917da440ed0d
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d0a07b1b-8b73-4002-8e29-e2bd56871262@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/super.c b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
index 829c8ac2639ca..942b8ff01ad07 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;
 }