Use vfat's method for dealing with negative dentries to preserve case, rather than overwrite dentry name in d_revalidate, which is a bit ugly and also gets in the way of doing lock-free path walking. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- fs/jfs/namei.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/jfs/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/jfs/namei.c 2010-11-17 00:50:54.000000000 +1100 +++ linux-2.6/fs/jfs/namei.c 2010-11-17 01:05:50.000000000 +1100 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ */ #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -1597,21 +1598,47 @@ static int jfs_ci_compare(struct dentry goto out; } result = 0; +out: + return result; +} +static int jfs_ci_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) +{ /* - * We want creates to preserve case. A negative dentry, a, that - * has a different case than b may cause a new entry to be created - * with the wrong case. Since we can't tell if a comes from a negative - * dentry, we blindly replace it with b. This should be harmless if - * a is not a negative dentry. + * This is not negative dentry. Always valid. + * + * Note, rename() to existing directory entry will have ->d_inode, + * and will use existing name which isn't specified name by user. + * + * We may be able to drop this positive dentry here. But dropping + * positive dentry isn't good idea. So it's unsupported like + * rename("filename", "FILENAME") for now. */ - memcpy((unsigned char *)a->name, b->name, a->len); -out: - return result; + if (dentry->d_inode) + return 1; + + /* + * This may be nfsd (or something), anyway, we can't see the + * intent of this. So, since this can be for creation, drop it. + */ + if (!nd) + return 0; + + /* + * Drop the negative dentry, in order to make sure to use the + * case sensitive name which is specified by user if this is + * for creation. + */ + if (!(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_CONTINUE | LOOKUP_PARENT))) { + if (nd->flags & (LOOKUP_CREATE | LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET)) + return 0; + } + return 1; } const struct dentry_operations jfs_ci_dentry_operations = { .d_hash = jfs_ci_hash, .d_compare = jfs_ci_compare, + .d_revalidate = jfs_ci_revalidate, }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/