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Message-Id: <200705072151.20104.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 21:51:14 +0400
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
To: hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8
This was posted in one of Russian forums. It was not possible to archive
(under Linux, using tar) vfat directory where files had long Russian names
(really long - over 150 - 170 characters) - tar returned stat failure. When
looking with plain ls, file names appeared truncated.
Now looking at current (2.6.21) fat driver, __fat_readdir allocates large
enough buffer (PAGE_SIZE-522) for UTF-8 name; but for iocharset=utf8 it calls
uni16_to_x8() which artificially limits length of UTF-8 name to 256 ... which
is obviously not enough for long UTF-8 Russian string (2 bytes per character)
not to mention the - theoretical - general case of 6 bytes UTF-8 characters.
Similar problem has apparently vfat_lookup()->...->fat_search_long() call
chain. Except this appears to be broken even in case of "utf8", because
fat_search_long allocates fixed 256 bytes buffer for UTF-8 name.
Am I off track here?
-andrey
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