linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs/dcache: Add d_clear_dir_neg

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Date:   Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:49:01 -0300
From:   André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        krisman@...labora.com, kernel@...labora.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs/dcache: Add d_clear_dir_neg_dentries()

Às 12:07 de 28/03/21, Matthew Wilcox escreveu:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:43:54AM -0300, André Almeida wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * d_clear_dir_neg_dentries - Remove negative dentries in an inode
>> + * @dir: Directory to clear negative dentries
>> + *
>> + * For directories with negative dentries that are becoming case-insensitive
>> + * dirs, we need to remove all those negative dentries, otherwise they will
>> + * become dangling dentries. During the creation of a new file, if a d_hash
>> + * collision happens and the names match in a case-insensitive, the name of
>> + * the file will be the name defined at the negative dentry, that can be
>> + * different from the specified by the user. To prevent this from happening, we
>> + * need to remove all dentries in a directory. Given that the directory must be
>> + * empty before we call this function we are sure that all dentries there will
>> + * be negative.
>> + */
> 
> This is quite the landmine of a function.  It _assumes_ that the directory
> is empty, and clears all dentries in it.
> 
>> +void d_clear_dir_neg_dentries(struct inode *dir)
>> +{
>> +	struct dentry *alias, *dentry;
>> +
>> +	hlist_for_each_entry(alias, &dir->i_dentry, d_u.d_alias) {
>> +		list_for_each_entry(dentry, &alias->d_subdirs, d_child) {
>> +			d_drop(dentry);
>> +			dput(dentry);
>> +		}
> 
> I would be happier if it included a check for negativity.  d_is_negative()
> or maybe this newfangled d_really_is_negative() (i haven't stayed up
> to speed on the precise difference between the two)
> 

Makes sense. And given that this only makes sense if the directory is 
empty, if it founds a non-negative dentry, it should return some error 
right?

>> +	}
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_clear_dir_neg_dentries);
> 
> I'd rather see this _GPL for such an internal thing.
>