Re: bug? VFAT copy problem

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 06:09:27 EST


junjiec@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> We encountered this problem before,it did being caused by dcache.
> When creating files, VFS would check the dcache first and pass the dentry
> it found there to vfat_create(). Instead of dentry , using the path info
> passed by user solved the problem.
>
> --- namei.c 2006-11-18 18:41:58.000000000 +0900
> +++ namei.c.new 2006-11-23 12:45:34.000000000 +0900
> @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@
> lock_kernel();
>
> ts = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
> - err = vfat_add_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, 0, 0, &ts, &sinfo);
> + err = vfat_add_entry(dir, &nd->last, 0, 0, &ts, &sinfo);
> if (err)
> goto out;
> dir->i_version++;
>

Interesting hack. However, mkdir() and rename() have same problem.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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