Re: FAT: Operating on broken FAT FS causes the write syscall to return negative number not equal to -1

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Jul 15 2018 - 10:30:52 EST


On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:20:06PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> +static inline bool fat_valid_entry(struct msdos_sb_info *sbi, int entry)
> +{
> + if (entry < FAT_START_ENT || sbi->max_cluster <= entry)
> + return false;
> + return true;
> +}

Pet peeve: if (...) return false; return true; instead of return !....;

In this case,
return entry >= FAT_START_ENT && entry < sb->max_cluster;