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Enable casefold lookup in tmpfs, based on the encoding defined by userspace. That means that instead of comparing byte per byte a file name, it compares to a case-insensitive equivalent of the Unicode string. * Dcache handling There's a special need when dealing with case-insensitive dentries. First of all, we currently invalidated every negative casefold dentries. That happens because currently VFS code has no proper support to deal with that, giving that it could incorrectly reuse a previous filename for a new file that has a casefold match. For instance, this could happen: $ mkdir DIR $ rm -r DIR $ mkdir dir $ ls DIR/ And would be perceived as inconsistency from userspace point of view, because even that we match files in a case-insensitive manner, we still honor whatever is the initial filename. Along with that, tmpfs stores only the first equivalent name dentry used in the dcache, preventing duplications of dentries in the dcache. The d_compare() version for casefold files uses a normalized string, so the filename under lookup will be compared to another normalized string for the existing file, achieving a casefolded lookup. * Enabling casefold via mount options Most filesystems have their data stored in disk, so casefold option need to be enabled when building a filesystem on a device (via mkfs). However, as tmpfs is a RAM backed filesystem, there's no disk information and thus no mkfs to store information about casefold. For tmpfs, create casefold options for mounting. Userspace can then enable casefold support for a mount point using: $ mount -t tmpfs -o casefold=utf8-12.1.0 fs_name mount_dir/ Userspace must set what Unicode standard is aiming to. The available options depends on what the kernel Unicode subsystem supports. And for strict encoding: $ mount -t tmpfs -o casefold=utf8-12.1.0,strict_encoding fs_name mount_dir/ Strict encoding means that tmpfs will refuse to create invalid UTF-8 sequences. When this option is not enabled, any invalid sequence will be treated as an opaque byte sequence, ignoring the encoding thus not being able to be looked up in a case-insensitive way. * Check for casefold dirs on simple_lookup() On simple_lookup(), do not create dentries for casefold directories. Currently, VFS does not support case-insensitive negative dentries and can create inconsistencies in the filesystem. Prevent such dentries to being created in the first place. Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021-tonyk-tmpfs-v8-6-f443d5814194@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.