linux-kernel - Re: bug? VFAT copy problem

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Date:	Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:08:59 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	junjiec@...il.com
Cc:	smartart@...cali.it, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug? VFAT copy problem

junjiec@...il.com writes:

> We encountered this problem before,it did being caused by dcache.
> When creating files, VFS would check the dcache first and pass the dentry
> it found there to vfat_create(). Instead of dentry , using the path info
> passed by user solved the problem.
>
> --- namei.c	2006-11-18 18:41:58.000000000 +0900
> +++ namei.c.new	2006-11-23 12:45:34.000000000 +0900
> @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@
>  	lock_kernel();
>  
>  	ts = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
> -	err = vfat_add_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, 0, 0, &ts, &sinfo);
> +	err = vfat_add_entry(dir, &nd->last, 0, 0, &ts, &sinfo);
>  	if (err)
>  		goto out;
>  	dir->i_version++;
>

Interesting hack. However, mkdir() and rename() have same problem.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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