Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] tmpfs: Add flag FS_CASEFOLD_FL support for tmpfs dirs

From: André Almeida
Date: Wed Sep 04 2024 - 18:29:19 EST


Hi Krisman,

Thanks for the feedback!

Em 03/09/2024 13:15, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi escreveu:
André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Enable setting flag FS_CASEFOLD_FL for tmpfs directories, when tmpfs is
mounted with casefold support. A special check is need for this flag,
since it can't be set for non-empty directories.

Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx>

[...]

+
+ if (fsflags & FS_CASEFOLD_FL) {
+ if (!sb->s_encoding)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ return -ENOTDIR;
+
+ if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
+ return -ENOTEMPTY;
+
+ i_flags |= S_CASEFOLD;
+ } else if (old & S_CASEFOLD) {
+ if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
+ return -ENOTEMPTY;

We don't want to fail if a directory already has the S_CASEFOLD
flag and we are not flipping it in the current operation. Something like:

if ((fsflags ^ old) & S_CASEFOLD) {
if (!sb->s_encoding)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -ENOTDIR;

if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
return -ENOTEMPTY;
i_flags |= fsflags & S_CASEFOLD;
}


You are right, it's broken and failing for directories with S_CASEFOLD. Here's a small test showing that we can't add the +d attribute to a non-empty CI folder (+d doesn't require the directory to be empty):

folder ) mkdir A
folder ) mkdir A/B
folder ) chattr +d A/B
folder ) chattr +d A
chattr: Directory not empty while setting flags on A

However, FS_CASEFOLD_FL != S_CASEFOLD and the set of values for inode->i_flags (var old) and fsflags aren't the same, so your proposed snippet didn't work. I see that ext4 has a very similar code as your proposal, but I think they do something different with the flag values.

I rewrote my code separating the three possible paths and it worked:

/* inheritance from parent dir/keeping the same flags path */
if ((fsflags & FS_CASEFOLD_FL) && (old & S_CASEFOLD))
i_flags |= S_CASEFOLD;

/* removing flag path */
if (!(fsflags & FS_CASEFOLD_FL) && (old & S_CASEFOLD))
if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
return -ENOTEMPTY;

/* adding flag path */
if ((fsflags & FS_CASEFOLD_FL) && !(old & S_CASEFOLD)) {
if (!sb->s_encoding)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -ENOTDIR;

if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
return -ENOTEMPTY;

i_flags |= S_CASEFOLD;
}

In that way, the `chattr +d` call doesn't fall into the simple_empty() check. I simplified the code like this for the v3:

if (fsflags & FS_CASEFOLD_FL) {
if (!(old & S_CASEFOLD)) {
if (!sb->s_encoding)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -ENOTDIR;

if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
return -ENOTEMPTY;
}

i_flags |= S_CASEFOLD;
} else if (old & S_CASEFOLD) {
if (dentry && !simple_empty(dentry))
return -ENOTEMPTY;
}