getdents64 problem in 2.6.23

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org 
> [mailto:linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of 
> Joakim Tjernlund
> Sent: den 27 oktober 2007 19:21
> To: 'David Woodhouse'
> Cc: 'Linux-MTD Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: getdents64 problem in 2.6.23
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2 at infradead.org] 
> > Sent: den 27 oktober 2007 19:09
> > To: Joakim Tjernlund
> > Cc: 'Linux-MTD Mailing List'
> > Subject: RE: getdents64 problem in 2.6.23
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 17:01 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > How do I do that?
> > 
> > Add some debugging and check that it's happening at the times you
> > expect. And there's no _real_ substitute for the Feynman 
> algorithm to
> > problem-solving. :)
> > 
> > >  I can try booting it, but it has to wait until
> > > I get acces to my board again, hopefully tonight.
> > > 
> > > What about locking? No need for down(&dir_f->sem)? Can I trust
> > > that ->next ptr will be valid all the time?
> > 
> > You'll definitely need locking, to protect against it being 
> > opened while
> > you're playing with it. I think that just locking dir_f->sem before
> > checking i_count probably ought to suffice.
> > 
> > > ehh, better add an if (!(*prev)->raw) test
> > > before jffs2_free_full_dirent(*prev) then. Will clean it up too.
> > 
> > You might try the unconventional step of _not_ using the dirent
> > structure after freeing it, too. And remember that if you're 
> > not freeing
> > the whole list, you're going to have to play with the list 
> pointers to
> > keep it intact.
> 
> :), I noticed that. Now I do:
>   while (*prev) {
>                 this = *prev;
>                 if (!this->raw) {
>                         *prev = this->next;
>                         jffs2_free_full_dirent(this);
>                 }
>                 prev = &((*prev)->next);
>         }
> 
> However that doesn't matter because the relese method isn't 
> called while
> doing rm!
> 
> I added som printk's and they were quiet. On the other hand doing an
> ls does call the release method.
> 
> You need to come up with a better method I think :)

After actually reading the code a bit I came up with this:

--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -590,10 +590,8 @@ int jffs2_do_unlink(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_info *dir_f,

                                D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Marking old dirent node (ino #%u) @%08x obsolete\n",
                                          this->ino, ref_offset(this->raw)));
-
-                               *prev = this->next;
-                               jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, (this->raw));
-                               jffs2_free_full_dirent(this);
+                               //jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, this->raw);
+                               this->ino = 0;
                                break;
                        }
                        prev = &((*prev)->next);

I works, even for big directories.

I noticed that the node is obsolteted a few lines below:
if (dead_f && dead_f->inocache) {
....
   jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, fd->raw);

Is these cases when dead_f && dead_f->inocache isn't true
so one neededs to uncomment the 
  //jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, this->raw);
line?

 Jocke