| Message ID | 20240705062621.630604-1-eugen.hristev@collabora.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Headers | show |
| Series | fs/dcache: fix cache inconsistency on case-insensitive lookups | expand |
On 7/5/24 09:26, Eugen Hristev wrote: > Hello, > > This is an attempt to go back to this old patch series here : > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1632909358.git.shreeya.patel@collabora.com/ > > First patch fixes a possible hang when d_add_ci is called from a filesystem's > lookup function (like xfs is doing) > d_alloc_parallel -> lookup -> d_add_ci -> d_alloc_parallel > > Second patch solves the issue of having the dcache saving the entry with > the same case as it's being looked up instead of saving the real file name > from the storage. > Please check above thread for motivation on why this should be changed. > > Some further old discussions here as well: > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/20180924215655.3676-20-krisman@collabora.co.uk/ > > I am not sure whether this is the right way to fix this, but I think > I have considered all cases discussed in previous threads. > > Thank you for your review and consideration, > Eugen > Hello, I have sent this series a while back, anyone has any opinion on whether it's a good way to solve the problem ? Thank you, Eugen > > Eugen Hristev (2): > fs/dcache: introduce d_alloc_parallel_check_existing > ext4: in lookup call d_add_ci if there is a case mismatch > > fs/dcache.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ > fs/ext4/namei.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > include/linux/dcache.h | 4 ++++ > 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >