Re: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs

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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So far, I have only seen expected correct behavior here: mkdir/rmdir inside the
> "bogus" directory works. rmdir of the "bogus" directory works.
>
> The only idiosyncrasies I can think of is that if neither "." or ".." are
> present, the directory will have a link of 1, instead of 2. And when listing
> the directory, those entries will not show up.
>
> Do you expect any of these to be corrected? It will require a more convoluted
> change.
>
> Right now, I think accepting the idiosyncratic behavior for the bogus
> filesystems is fine, as long as the correct filesystems continue to behave as
> before. Which seems to be the case here as far as my testing has shown.

There are many corrupted images, and attacks. Allowing too wide is
danger for fs.

BTW, this image works and pass fsck on windows? When I quickly tested
ev3fs.zip (https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-ev3/issues/980) on windows
on qemu, it didn't seem recognized as FAT. I can wrongly tested though.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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