From ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:39:33 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=895c23f6917da440ed0d Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d0a07b1b-8b73-4002-8e29-e2bd56871262@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko --- fs/hfsplus/super.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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; } -- 2.47.3