Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix up f2fs_get_parent issue to retrieve correctparent inode number

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Wed Dec 12 2012 - 11:12:59 EST


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > + /* dot and dotdot dentries should have zero-value hash code */
> > + if (!memcmp(name, ".", 1) || !memcmp(name, "..", 2))
> > + return 0;
>
> That looks suspicious. If memcmp(name, "..", 2) == 0 then always
> memcmp(name, ".", 1) == 0. Why two tests ?
It is not the case vice versa, so you still need to do two checks.
You need to distinguish dot(.), dotdot(..) and something with dot at
the beginning (for example - .o)

>
> Fubo.
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