Re: [PATCH v2 12/23] ovl: cleanup temp index entries

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On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A previous failed attempt to create or whiteout a directory index may leave
> index entries named '#%x' in the index dir.
> Cleanup those temp entries on mount instead of failing the mount.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> index e53c54ecb7cc..4987d7df1581 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/cred.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
>  #include <linux/namei.h>
>  #include <linux/xattr.h>
>  #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> @@ -452,6 +453,24 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_index_upper(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *index)
>         return upper.dentry;
>  }
>
> +/* Is this a leftover from create/whiteout of directory index entry? */
> +static bool ovl_is_temp_index(struct dentry *index)
> +{
> +       const char *p = index->d_name.name;
> +       int len = index->d_name.len;
> +
> +       if (!d_is_dir(index) && !ovl_is_whiteout(index))
> +               return false;
> +
> +       if (*p++ != '#' || len < 2)
> +               return false;

I don't see a point in extensive verification that it's a well formed
temp file name.   Just checking that the first character is "#" should
be enough, no?

Thanks,
Miklos
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