linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH

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Message-ID: <18940.9039.850580.48730@samba.org>
Date:	Sat, 2 May 2009 20:41:19 +1000
From:	tridge@...ba.org
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

OGAWA Hirofumi writes:
 > Um.., probably, this patch would be handle the invalid chars for 8.3 alias.
 > Otherwise, it'll try to create ~<num> postfix, and I guess it'll become
 > the dcache problem.

Do you think that will cause problems? 

If it will, then we could add something like this after the
vfat_create_shortname() call:

	if (strncasecmp(name, msdos_name, MSDOS_NAME) != 0) {
		err = -EINVAL;
		goto out_free;
	}

or would the potential case change still be a problem?

Cheers, Tridge
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