Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> There's no way that patch is correct.

Something like the appended might be a good idea regardless. And might
have made people notice that the len and the hash go together with the
name.

             Linus

----

    diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
    index 7a5b51440afa..aa1b045b997c 100644
    --- a/fs/dcache.c
    +++ b/fs/dcache.c
    @@ -2412,7 +2412,7 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry
*dentry, struct dentry *target)
                            }
                    }
            }
    -       swap(dentry->d_name.len, target->d_name.len);
    +       swap(dentry->d_name.hash_len, target->d_name.hash_len);
     }

     static void dentry_lock_for_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct
dentry *target)
    @@ -2511,7 +2511,6 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry,
struct dentry *target,

            /* Switch the names.. */
            switch_names(dentry, target);
    -       swap(dentry->d_name.hash, target->d_name.hash);

            /* ... and switch the parents */
            if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
    @@ -2650,7 +2649,6 @@ static void __d_materialise_dentry(struct
dentry *dentry, struct dentry *anon)
            dparent = dentry->d_parent;

            switch_names(dentry, anon);
    -       swap(dentry->d_name.hash, anon->d_name.hash);

            dentry->d_parent = dentry;
            list_del_init(&dentry->d_u.d_child);