When creating a torrent with a shortcut, the client mistakes it for a folder and considers the files to which the shortcut links

[stalkerok]

qBittorrent & operating system versions

qBittorrent v5.0.1 (64-bit)
Qt: 6.7.3
Libtorrent: 1.2.19.0
Boost: 1.86.0
OpenSSL: 3.4.0
zlib: 1.3.1
OS: W10

What is the problem?

When creating a torrent with a shortcut, the client mistakes it for a folder and considers the files to which the shortcut links.
The first torrent was created in qBittorrent. The second one was created in Torrent File Editor. The third one was created in (God forgive me) uTorrent.

Steps to reproduce

Create a torrent with a shortcut inside the folder.
Try re-hashing this torrent.

Additional context

No response

Log(s) & preferences file(s)

torrents.zip

[HanabishiRecca]

I think the best course of action is to just filter out .lnk files, same as Torrent File Editor does. They are useless on their own and most probably get into torrents by mistake.

Here

qBittorrent/src/base/bittorrent/torrentcreator.cpp

Lines 126 to 131 in 0f12d07

	QDirIterator dirIter {m_params.sourcePath.data(), (QDir::AllDirs | QDir::NoDotAndDotDot), QDirIterator::Subdirectories};
	while (dirIter.hasNext())
	{
	const QString filePath = dirIter.next();
	dirs.append(filePath);
	}

and here

qBittorrent/src/base/bittorrent/torrentcreator.cpp

Lines 141 to 149 in 0f12d07

	QDirIterator fileIter {dir, QDir::Files};
	while (fileIter.hasNext())
	{
	const QFileInfo fileInfo = fileIter.nextFileInfo();
	const Path relFilePath = parentPath.relativePathOf(Path(fileInfo.filePath()));
	tmpNames.append(relFilePath.toString());
	fileSizeMap[tmpNames.last()] = fileInfo.size();
	}

[stalkerok]

.lnk is also used for attacks, so it should be filtered due to potential security threat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1gjeb29
Hash 6714c11a3cf57cd9707a8ac2b218f88eb218af3f