Re: [PATCH] exfat: redefine DIR_DELETED as the bad cluster number

From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Sat Jan 07 2023 - 20:06:42 EST


2022-12-29 20:52 GMT+09:00, Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> When a file or a directory is deleted, the hint for the cluster of
> its parent directory in its in-memory inode is set as DIR_DELETED.
> Therefore, DIR_DELETED must be one of invalid cluster numbers. According
> to the exFAT specification, a volume can have at most 2^32-11 clusters.
> However, DIR_DELETED is wrongly defined as 0xFFFF0321, which could be
> a valid cluster number. To fix it, let's redefine DIR_DELETED as
> 0xFFFFFFF7, the bad cluster number.
>
> Fixes: 1acf1a564b60 ("exfat: add in-memory and on-disk structures and
> headers")
>
> Reported-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, Thanks!