From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, I am trying to respin the series here : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg85081.html To make it easier to apply I split it into smaller chunks which address one single thing. This patch simply adds an error message in the UNICODE path. fs/ext4/namei.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 6e7af8dc4dde..7d357c417475 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1477,6 +1477,9 @@ 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; -- 2.34.1