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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: allow unlinked symlinks and dirs with zero size
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:50:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZmfXmebrxnQy3OWI@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240610210723.GU52987@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:07:23PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> It turns out that even this is still buggy because directories that are
> being inactivated (e.g. after repair has replaced the contents) can have
> zero isize.  Sooo I'll have a new patch in a day or two.

Isn't that what this patch checks for?  Or do you mean inactivated
with non-zero nlink?

Btw, it might make sense to add a helper or local variable to check
for an unlinked dinode instead of open coding the v1 check twice in
this function.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-11  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-07 16:12 [PATCH] xfs: allow unlinked symlinks and dirs with zero size Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-09  6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-10 21:07   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-11  4:50     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-06-11  6:07       ` Darrick J. Wong

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