[PATCH v2 2/2] fs/ntfs3: fix lseek EINVAL on sparse/compressed files with 64-bit clusters
Senjin <[email protected]> 13 Jun 2026 20:16:14 -0000
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.ntfs3 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
When CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER is enabled, sbi->maxbytes_sparse is set to -1. As a signed loff_t this is -1LL, the most negative value. Any lseek on a sparse or compressed file passes this as maxsize to vfs_setpos(), which returns -EINVAL whenever offset > maxsize, and since -1LL is less than any non-negative offset, every seek fails, including lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET). The intent of -1 here appears to be "no limit" (matching the spirit of MAX_LFS_FILESIZE assigned to sbi->maxbytes and sb->s_maxbytes in the same block), but the signed type makes it the minimum instead of the maximum. Fix by assigning MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to sbi->maxbytes_sparse in the 64-bit cluster path, consistent with the other two limits set there. Observed on a 16 TB NTFS volume with 0xFFFFFEFF total clusters compiled with CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER=y. Sequential reads via dd/cp worked correctly; any lseek call on sparse files returned EINVAL, preventing archive managers and other tools from random-accessing files on the volume. The non-64-bit-cluster path correctly sets maxbytes_sparse to (1ull << (cluster_bits + 32)) - 1, a large positive value. Signed-off-by: Senjin <[email protected]> --- fs/ntfs3/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/super.c b/fs/ntfs3/super.c index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/super.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/super.c @@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc) #ifdef CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER if (clusters >= (1ull << (64 - cluster_bits))) sbi->maxbytes = -1; - sbi->maxbytes_sparse = -1; + sbi->maxbytes_sparse = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE; sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE; #else /* Maximum size for sparse file. */ -- 2.x