On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:20:01AM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h > index 7fe7b87..0fd9315 100644 > --- a/include/linux/namei.h > +++ b/include/linux/namei.h > @@ -92,4 +92,14 @@ retry_estale(const long error, const unsigned int flags) > return error == -ESTALE && !(flags & LOOKUP_REVAL); > } > > +static inline bool is_dot_or_dotdot(const unsigned char *name, size_t len) > +{ > + if (unlikely(name[0] == '.')) { > + if (len == 1 || (len == 2 && name[1] == '.')) > + return true; > + } > + > + return false; > +} > + > #endif /* _LINUX_NAMEI_H */ I had suggested adding a len >= 1 check to handle the empty name case correctly. What I had in mind was static inline bool is_dot_or_dotdot(const unsigned char *name, size_t len) { if (len >= 1 && unlikely(name[0] == '.')) { if (len < 2 || (len == 2 && name[1] == '.')) return true; } return false; } As is, you're proposing that it always dereference the first byte even when len=0, which seems like a bad idea for a shared helper function. Did you check whether it's okay for all the existing callers? fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr() is called from 6 places, did you check all of them? How about keeping the existing optimized code for the hot path in fs/namei.c (i.e. not using the helper function), while having the helper function do the extra check to handle len=0 correctly? - Eric