Commit 22296f2db9 for qemu.org

commit 22296f2db9f17f9954f85de9e99b09498936eb51
Author: Andrey Erokhin <language.lawyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Nov 23 01:19:09 2025 +0500

    9pfs: local: read native symlinks when security-model=mapped

    Directories attached using virtfs with security-model=mapped
    may contain native symlinks

    This can happen e.g. when booting from a rootfs directory tree
    (usually with a writable overlay set up on the host side)

    Currently, when security-model=mapped[-xattr|-file],
    QEMU assumes that host-side "symlinks" are in the mapped format,
    i.e. are regular files storing the linked path,
    so it tries to open with O_NOFOLLOW
    and fails with ELOOP on native symlinks

    This patch introduces a fallback for such cases:
    reuse security-model=[none|passthrough] else if branch logic
    where readlink will be called for the path basename

    Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/173
    Signed-off-by: Andrey Erokhin <language.lawyer@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/3c35955d-a57e-4203-81c5-395146e23f83@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
index c3745f2839..24cb1da90a 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
@@ -469,12 +469,16 @@ static ssize_t local_readlink(FsContext *fs_ctx, V9fsPath *fs_path,

         fd = local_open_nofollow(fs_ctx, fs_path->data, O_RDONLY, 0);
         if (fd == -1) {
+            if (errno == ELOOP) {
+                goto native_symlink;
+            }
             return -1;
         }
         tsize = RETRY_ON_EINTR(read(fd, (void *)buf, bufsz));
         close_preserve_errno(fd);
     } else if ((fs_ctx->export_flags & V9FS_SM_PASSTHROUGH) ||
                (fs_ctx->export_flags & V9FS_SM_NONE)) {
+    native_symlink:;
         char *dirpath = g_path_get_dirname(fs_path->data);
         char *name = g_path_get_basename(fs_path->data);
         int dirfd;