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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 08:06:41PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com> writes:
>>
>> >> So you break the mkdir/rmdir link counting, isn't it?
>> >>
>> >
>> > It is off by one on those images with directories without ".." subdir.
>> > Otherwise, everything else works fine. mkdir/rmdir inside such directories work
>> > without any issues as rmdir that same directory.
>>
>> mkdir() increase link count, rmdir decrease link count. Your change set
>> a dir link count always 2? So if there are 3 normal subdirs, and rmdir
>> all those normal dirs, link count underflow.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> No. The main change is as follows:
>
> int fat_subdirs(struct inode *dir)
> {
> [...]
> int count = 0;
> [...]
> - if (de->attr & ATTR_DIR)
> + if (de->attr & ATTR_DIR &&
> + strncmp(de->name, MSDOS_DOTDOT, MSDOS_NAME))
> count++;
> [...]
> return count;
> }
>
> int fat_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, struct msdos_dir_entry *de)
> {
> [...]
> if ((de->attr & ATTR_DIR) && !IS_FREE(de->name)) {
> [...]
> - set_nlink(inode, fat_subdirs(inode));
> + set_nlink(inode, fat_subdirs(inode) + 1);
> [...]
> }
>
> That is, when first instatiating a directory inode, its link count was set to
> the number of subdirs it had, including "." and "..". Now it is set to 1 + the
> number of subdirs it has ignoring "..".
>
> mkdir and rmdir still increment and decrement the parent directory link count.

Ah, sorry, I misread. So next, it should create "." and ".." on initial
create/mkdir or such, like mkdir does.

Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

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