On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:45:59PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:

> +static inline int generic_ci_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry,
> +                                       const struct qstr *name,
> +                                       unsigned int flags)
> +{
> +     int is_creation = flags & (LOOKUP_CREATE | LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET);
> +
> +     if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {
> +             const struct dentry *parent = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
> +             const struct inode *dir = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
> +
> +             if (dir && needs_casefold(dir)) {
> +                     if (!d_is_casefold_lookup(dentry))
> +                             return 0;

        In which conditions does that happen?

> +                     if (is_creation &&
> +                         (dentry->d_name.len != name->len ||
> +                          memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, name->name, 
> name->len)))
> +                             return 0;
> +             }
> +     }
> +     return 1;
> +}

        Analysis of stability of ->d_name, please.  It's *probably* safe, but
the details are subtle and IMO should be accompanied by several asserts.
E.g. "we never get LOOKUP_CREATE in op->intent without O_CREAT in op->open_flag
for such and such reasons, and we verify that in such and such place"...

        A part of that would be "the call in lookup_dcache() can only get there
with non-zero flags when coming from __lookup_hash(), and that has parent 
locked,
stabilizing the name; the same goes for the call in __lookup_slow(), with the
only call chain with possibly non-zero flags is through lookup_slow(), where we
have the parent locked".  However, lookup_fast() and lookup_open() have the
flags come from nd->flags, and LOOKUP_CREATE can be found there in several 
areas.
I _think_ we are guaranteed the parent locked in all such call chains, but that
is definitely worth at least a comment.


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