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Message-ID: <20181004172629.v2cvmcbox2roafkp@pali>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 19:26:29 +0200
From: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To: chenchacha <chen.chenchacha@...mail.com>
Cc: hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
andy.shevchenko@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs: fat: add ioctl method to read voluem label in
fat filesystem driver
On Friday 05 October 2018 01:20:59 chenchacha wrote:
> This patch add fat ioctl command FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_LABEL.
>
> We can get the volume label with this command:
>
> ioctl(fd, FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_LABEL, &volume_label);
Hi! What is purpose of having such functionality in kernel? Userspace
can read it without any kernel support. (e.g. mlabel or fatlabel)
> FAT volume label (volume name) is exactly same stored in boot sector and root
> directory. And this patch read label only from the root directory. If label in
> root directory is missing then disk would be treated as without label. Label
> from boot sector would not be read.
>
> The volume label format reference from Pali Rohár testing results
> (https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html) in the previous mail.
>
> chenchacha (2):
> Add FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_LABEL in fat_generic_ioctl()
> Add a new function to get root directory with ATTR_VOLUME
>
> fs/fat/dir.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> fs/fat/fat.h | 2 ++
> fs/fat/file.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
>
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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com
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