[Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

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--- Comment #180 from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>  2009-11-06 22:26:13 ---
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > For ext4, one thing I would suggest is to simply always put the NUL at the 
> > end of the name, even if the filesystem might not need it. Then 
> > nd_terminate_link() will still write the NUL, but it won't change any data 
> > (and thus no CRC's).
> 
> Ah, good idea in the short term at least.

Btw, if you do that, then for Chris' debug patch you might then make 
nd_terminate_link() do a conditional write ("only write NUL if it isn't 
already NUL"), and thus avoid the debug code triggering for that case.

        Linus

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