[PATCH 2/3] ext4: Prevent dangling dentries on casefold directories

From: André Almeida
Date: Sun Mar 28 2021 - 10:59:24 EST


Before making a folder a case-insensitive one, this folder could have
been used before and created some negative dentries (given that the
folder needs to be empty before making it case-insensitive, all detries
there are negative ones). During a new file creation, if a d_hash()
collision happens and the name matches a negative dentry, the new file
might have a name different than the specified by user.

To prevent this from happening, remove all negative dentries in a
directory before making it a case-folded one.

Fixes: b886ee3e778e ("ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups")
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index a2cf35066f46..0eede4c93c22 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ static int ext4_ioctl_setflags(struct inode *inode,
err = -ENOTEMPTY;
goto flags_out;
}
+
+ if (!(oldflags & EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL) && (flags & EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL))
+ d_clear_dir_neg_dentries(inode);
}

/*
--
2.31.0