From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> When renaming onto an existing directory entry, user space expects the replacement entry to have the same directory offset as the original one. Link: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/15966 Fixes: a2e459555c5f ("shmem: stable directory offsets") Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/libfs.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index c392a6edd393..b635ee5adbcc 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ int simple_offset_empty(struct dentry *dentry) * * Caller provides appropriate serialization. * + * User space expects the directory offset value of the replaced + * (new) directory entry to be unchanged after a rename. + * * Returns zero on success, a negative errno value on failure. */ int simple_offset_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, @@ -373,8 +376,14 @@ int simple_offset_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, { struct offset_ctx *old_ctx = old_dir->i_op->get_offset_ctx(old_dir); struct offset_ctx *new_ctx = new_dir->i_op->get_offset_ctx(new_dir); + long new_offset = dentry2offset(new_dentry); simple_offset_remove(old_ctx, old_dentry); + + if (new_offset) { + offset_set(new_dentry, 0); + return simple_offset_replace(new_ctx, old_dentry, new_offset); + } return simple_offset_add(new_ctx, old_dentry); } -- 2.44.0