linux-ext4 - Re: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

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Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:12:27 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:07:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
> For ext4, one thing I would suggest is to simply always put the NUL at the 
> end of the name, even if the filesystem might not need it. Then 
> nd_terminate_link() will still write the NUL, but it won't change any data 
> (and thus no CRC's).

It's pretty simple to do this; in fact it's a one-line change in
ext4_symlink() in fs/ext4/inode.c:

		/* clear the extent format for fast symlink */
		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
		inode->i_op = &ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
-		memcpy((char *)&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data, symname, l);
+		strcpy((char *)&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data, symname);
		inode->i_size = l-1;

					- Ted
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