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> --- changes since v4: - Reword error message (Eric) Changes since v1: - reword error message "file in directory" -> "filename" (Eric) --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 98295b03a57c..8fbb35187f72 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1396,6 +1396,9 @@ 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, + "Directory contains filename that is invalid UTF-8"); return false; } return ret; -- 2.36.1