Re: [RFC PATCH 11/20] hfs: Explicitly set hsb->nls_disk when hsb->nls_io is set

[Steve French]

For cifs.ko, I don't mind running our automated regression tests on
this patch when the patch (or patches) is ready, but was thinking
about an earlier discussion a few months about parth conversion in
cifs.ko prompted by Al Viro, and whether additional changes should be
made to move the character conversion later as well (e.g. for
characters in the reserved range such as '\' to 0xF026, and'':' to
0xF022  and '>' to 0xF024 and '?' to 0xF025 etc) for the 10 special
characters which have to get remapped into the UCS-2 reserved
character range.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:49 PM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Monday 09 August 2021 18:37:19 Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:31:55AM -0700, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > > > On Aug 8, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It does not make any sense to set hsb->nls_io (NLS iocharset used between
> > > > VFS and hfs driver) when hsb->nls_disk (NLS codepage used between hfs
> > > > driver and disk) is not set.
> > > >
> > > > Reverse engineering driver code shown what is doing in this special case:
> > > >
> > > >    When codepage was not defined but iocharset was then
> > > >    hfs driver copied 8bit character from disk directly to
> > > >    16bit unicode wchar_t type. Which means it did conversion
> > > >    from Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) to Unicode because first 256
> > > >    Unicode code points matches 8bit ISO-8859-1 codepage table.
> > > >    So when iocharset was specified and codepage not, then
> > > >    codepage used implicit value "iso8859-1".
> > > >
> > > > So when hsb->nls_disk is not set and hsb->nls_io is then explicitly set
> > > > hsb->nls_disk to "iso8859-1".
> > > >
> > > > Such setup is obviously incompatible with Mac OS systems as they do not
> > > > support iso8859-1 encoding for hfs. So print warning into dmesg about this
> > > > fact.
> > > >
> > > > After this change hsb->nls_disk is always set, so remove code paths for
> > > > case when hsb->nls_disk was not set as they are not needed anymore.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sounds reasonable. But it will be great to know that the change has been tested reasonably well.
> >
> > I don't think it's reasonable to ask Pali to test every single filesystem.
> > That's something the maintainer should do, as you're more likely to have
> > the infrastructure already set up to do testing of your filesystem and
> > be aware of fun corner cases and use cases than someone who's working
> > across all filesystems.
>
> This patch series is currently in RFC form, as stated in cover letter
> mostly untested. So they are not in form for merging or detailed
> reviewing. I just would like to know if this is the right direction with
> filesystems and if I should continue with this my effort or not.
> And I thought that sending RFC "incomplete" patches is better way than
> just describing what to do and how...



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Thanks,

Steve