If the volume is in strict mode, ext4_ci_compare can report a broken encoding name. This will not trigger on a bad lookup, which is caught earlier, only if the actual disk name is bad. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 8520115cd5c2..c321c6fdb4ae 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1456,6 +1456,9 @@ static bool ext4_match(struct inode *parent, * only case where it happens is on a disk * corruption or ENOMEM. */ + if (ret == -EINVAL) + EXT4_ERROR_INODE(parent, + "Bad encoded file in directory"); return false; } return ret; -- 2.35.1