26 Oct
2025
26 Oct
'25
8:12 a.m.
On 2025/10/26 0:55, Sasha Levin wrote:
Conclusion: This is a targeted bugfix to comply with VFS invariants and prevent failures when interacting with $Extend records. It’s safe and appropriate to backport to stable kernels that include ntfs3 and the may_open() invariant check.
Please consider waiting for https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_F24B651BC22523BA92BB5A337D9E2A1B5F08@qq.co... to arrive at linux.git before backporting "ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files".