[PATCH 1/1] fat: correct sign for deletion mark

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Wed Jul 26 10:33:13 CEST 2023


The FAT file systems uses character '\xe5' to mark a deleted directory
entry. If a file name starts with this character, it is substituted by
'\x05' in the directory entry.

While (signed char)'\xe5' is a negative number 0xe5 is a positive integer
number. We therefore have define a constant DELETED_MARK which matches the
signedness of the characters in the directory entry.

Correct a comparison where we used the constant 0xe5 with the wrong sign.
Use the constant aRING instead of 0x05 like in the rest of the code.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
Fixes: 57b745e2387a ("fs: fat: call set_name() only once")
Fixes: 28cef9ca2e86 ("fs: fat: create correct short names")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 fs/fat/fat_write.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/fat_write.c b/fs/fat/fat_write.c
index e2a9913f80..a6294419b8 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat_write.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat_write.c
@@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ static int set_name(fat_itr *itr, const char *filename, char *shortname)
 		return period_location;
 	if (*dirent.name == ' ')
 		*dirent.name = '_';
-	/* 0xe5 signals a deleted directory entry. Replace it by 0x05. */
-	if (*dirent.name == 0xe5)
-		*dirent.name = 0x05;
+	/* Substitute character 0xe5 signaling deletetion by character 0x05 */
+	if (*dirent.name == DELETED_FLAG)
+		*dirent.name = aRING;
 
 	/* If filename and short name are the same, quit. */
 	sprintf(buf, "%.*s.%.3s", period_location, dirent.name, dirent.ext);
-- 
2.40.1



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