Re: [PATCH] jffs2: remove fd from the f->dents list immediately.

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 12:39 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > After reverting the commit, we test 'rm -r', which can remove all
> > files, and all seems OK!
> 
> UHH, this is mine (and Davids work from 2007)!
> I cannot remember any details this long afterwards but I guess you cannot just
> revert that part as it triggers some other bug, David?

Right, the issue was with f_pos in the directory.

The 'rm' we were testing with at the time would delete a bunch of
directory entries, then continue with its readdir() to work out what
else to delete. But when we were handling f_pos on directories merely
as the position on the list, and when we were *deleting* things from
that list as we went, some dirents ended up moving so that they were
*before* the position that 'rm' had got to with its readdir().

But... the list we're traversing is *already* ordered by CRC, and that
could be a much saner thing to use as f_pos. We just have to make sure
we cope with hash collisions. Shifting left by 4 bits and using the low
4 bits would allow us to cope with 16 names with the same hash... but
I'm not sure that's good enough.

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