linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:52:12 +0900
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...lia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gwendal
 Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>, dlunev@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...lia.com> writes:

> The tools used for creating images for the Lego Mindstrom EV3 are not
> adding '.' and '..' entry in the 'Projects' directory.
>
> Without this fix, the kernel can not fill the inode structure for
> 'Projects' directory.
>
> See https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-ev3/issues/980
> And https://github.com/microsoft/uf2-linux/issues/6
>
> When counting the number of subdirs, ignore .. subdir and add one when
> setting the initial link count for directories. This way, when .. is
> present, it is still accounted for, and when neither . or .. are present, a
> single link is still done, as it should, since this link would be the one
> from the parent directory.
>
> With this fix applied, we can mount an image with such empty directories,
> access them, create subdirectories and remove them.

This looks like the bug of those tools, isn't it?

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>