Subject: kern/25266: msdosfs namecache handling bug
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/21/2004 12:42:52
>Number: 25266
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: msdosfs namecache handling bug
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 21 03:44:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
>Release: NetBSD 2.0C
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 2.0C
>Description:
msdosfs tries to deal with case-insensitive filenames and
short/long filenames but namecache routines used by it doesn't.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. create an negative cache entry.
$ ls
$ cat A
cat: A: No such file or directory
2. create a file named 'a', which is an alias name of 'A'.
$ touch a
3. however, you'll find a stale negative cache entry created in 1.
$ cat A
cat: A: No such file or directory
>Fix:
one of the followings?
- give up to use name cache.
- make namei_hash and a filename compare routine overridable.
- use normalized names for cache_lookup/enter.
- implement a fs-specific version of cache_lookup/enter.
- purge all negative entries in the directory on every
create operations.
>Release-Note:
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