RE: [PATCH 1/2] exfat: fix referencing wrong parent directory information after renaming

From: Sungjong Seo
Date: Fri Apr 01 2022 - 06:32:52 EST


> During renaming, the parent directory information maybe updated. But the
> file/directory still references to the old parent directory information.
>
> This bug will cause 2 problems.
>
> (1) The renamed file can not be written.
>
> [10768.175172] exFAT-fs (sda1): error, failed to bmap (inode : 7afd50e4
> iblock : 0, err : -5)
> [10768.184285] exFAT-fs (sda1): Filesystem has been set read-only
> ash: write error: Input/output error
>
> (2) Some dentries of the renamed file/directory are not set
> to deleted after removing the file/directory.
>
> fixes: 5f2aa075070c ("exfat: add inode operations")
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Wu <Andy.Wu@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Aoyama Wataru <wataru.aoyama@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@xxxxxxxx>

Looks good!
Thanks for your patch!
Reviewed-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> fs/exfat/namei.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c index
> a02a04a993bf..e7adb6bfd9d5 100644
> --- a/fs/exfat/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c
> @@ -1080,6 +1080,7 @@ static int exfat_rename_file(struct inode *inode,
> struct exfat_chain *p_dir,
>
> exfat_remove_entries(inode, p_dir, oldentry, 0,
> num_old_entries);
> + ei->dir = *p_dir;
> ei->entry = newentry;
> } else {
> if (exfat_get_entry_type(epold) == TYPE_FILE) {
> --
> 2.25.1