diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 0eb64e8f9602..9d512fa80d28 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4965,6 +4965,13 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) inode->i_op = &ext4_dir_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &ext4_dir_operations; } else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) { + /* VFS does not allow setting these so must be corruption */ + if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) { + EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, + "immutable or append flags not allowed on symlinks"); + ret = -EFSCORRUPTED; + goto bad_inode; + } if (ext4_encrypted_inode(inode)) { inode->i_op = &ext4_encrypted_symlink_inode_operations; ext4_set_aops(inode);