Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] exfat: introduce exfat_chain_advance helper

From: Yuezhang.Mo@xxxxxxxx

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 22:35:53 EST


> From: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Introduce exfat_chain_advance() to walk a exfat_chain structure by a
> given step, updating both ->dir and ->size fields atomically. This
> helper handles both ALLOC_NO_FAT_CHAIN and ALLOC_FAT_CHAIN modes with
> proper boundary checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: syzbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h b/fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h
> index 530459ab9acc..1035d20ba563 100644
> --- a/fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h
> +++ b/fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h
> @@ -552,6 +552,23 @@ int exfat_read_volume_label(struct super_block *sb,
> int exfat_write_volume_label(struct super_block *sb,
> struct exfat_uni_name *label);
>
> +static inline int exfat_chain_advance(struct super_block *sb,
> + struct exfat_chain *chain, unsigned int step)
> +{
> + if (chain->size >= step)
> + chain->size -= step;

It would be better to not change *chain if return an error.

> + else
> + return -EIO;
> +
> + if (exfat_fat_walk(sb, &chain->dir, step, chain->flags))
> + return -EIO;
> +
> + if (chain->size == 0 && chain->flags == ALLOC_NO_FAT_CHAIN)
> + chain->dir = EXFAT_EOF_CLUSTER;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> /* inode.c */
> extern const struct inode_operations exfat_file_inode_operations;
> void exfat_sync_inode(struct inode *inode);
> --
> 2.43.0