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Vasant Karasulli 531f58fca8 exfat: allow access to paths with trailing dots
exfat currently unconditionally strips trailing
 periods '.' when performing path lookup, but allows them in the filenames
 during file creation. This is done intentionally, loosely following
 Windows behaviour and specifications which state:

  #exFAT
  The concatenated file name has the same set of illegal characters as
  other FAT-based file systems (see Table 31).

  #FAT
  ...
  Leading and trailing spaces in a long name are ignored.
  Leading and embedded periods are allowed in a name and are stored in
  the long name. Trailing periods are ignored.

Note: Leading and trailing space ' ' characters are currently retained
by Linux kernel exfat, in conflict with the above specification.
On Windows 10, trailing and leading space ' ' characters are stripped
from the filenames
.
Some implementations, such as fuse-exfat, don't perform path trailer
removal. When mounting images which contain trailing-dot paths, these
paths are unreachable, e.g.:

  + mount.exfat-fuse /dev/zram0 /mnt/test/
  FUSE exfat 1.3.0
  + cd /mnt/test/
  + touch fuse_created_dots... '  fuse_created_spaces  '
  + ls -l
  total 0
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45 '  fuse_created_spaces  '
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45  fuse_created_dots...
  + cd /
  + umount /mnt/test/
  + mount -t exfat /dev/zram0 /mnt/test
  + cd /mnt/test
  + ls -l
  ls: cannot access 'fuse_created_dots...': No such file or directory
  total 0
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45 '  fuse_created_spaces  '
  -????????? ? ?    ? ?            ?  fuse_created_dots...
  + touch kexfat_created_dots... '  kexfat_created_spaces  '
  + ls -l
  ls: cannot access 'fuse_created_dots...': No such file or directory
  total 0
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45 '  fuse_created_spaces  '
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45 '  kexfat_created_spaces  '
  -????????? ? ?    ? ?            ?  fuse_created_dots...
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 09:45  kexfat_created_dots
  + cd /
  + umount /mnt/test/

This commit adds "keep_last_dots" mount option that controls whether or
not trailing periods '.' are stripped
from path components during file lookup or file creation.
This mount option can be used to access
paths with trailing periods and disallow creating files with names with
trailing periods. E.g. continuing from the previous example:

  + mount -t exfat -o keep_last_dots /dev/zram0 /mnt/test
  + cd /mnt/test
  + ls -l
  total 0
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 10:32 '  fuse_created_spaces  '
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 10:32 '  kexfat_created_spaces  '
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 10:32  fuse_created_dots...
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 0 Aug 18 10:32  kexfat_created_dots

  + echo > kexfat_created_dots_again...
  sh: kexfat_created_dots_again...: Invalid argument

Link: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188964
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/003b01d755e4$31fb0d80$95f12880$
@samsung.com/
Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification
Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Vasant Karasulli <vkarasulli@suse.de>
Co-developed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
2022-03-18 22:24:29 +09:00
.travis.yml exfat: add FITRIM ioctl tests 2021-03-25 08:10:44 +09:00
.travis_cmd_wrapper.pl exfat: add travis-CI build and test support 2020-02-03 22:43:47 +09:00
.travis_get_mainline_kernel exfat: add travis-CI build and test support 2020-02-03 22:43:47 +09:00
balloc.c exfat: remove argument 'sector' from exfat_get_dentry() 2021-12-16 21:30:53 +09:00
cache.c exfat: fix use of uninitialized spinlock on error path 2020-10-12 22:56:52 +09:00
dir.c exfat: remove argument 'sector' from exfat_get_dentry() 2021-12-16 21:30:53 +09:00
exfat_fs.h exfat: allow access to paths with trailing dots 2022-03-18 22:24:29 +09:00
exfat_raw.h exfat: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exfat_fill_super() 2021-02-01 10:35:05 +09:00
fatent.c exfat: simplify is_valid_cluster() 2021-11-03 11:09:14 +09:00
file.c exfat: fix i_blocks for files truncated over 4 GiB 2021-11-19 06:43:03 +09:00
inode.c exfat: reuse exfat_inode_info variable instead of calling EXFAT_I() 2021-11-03 11:09:20 +09:00
Kconfig exfat: initial commit 2020-02-03 21:47:19 +09:00
Makefile exfat: fix typo in Makefile 2021-10-14 22:24:23 -07:00
misc.c exfat: fix missing REQ_SYNC in exfat_update_bhs() 2021-12-21 21:47:07 +09:00
namei.c exfat: allow access to paths with trailing dots 2022-03-18 22:24:29 +09:00
nls.c exfat: remove argument 'sector' from exfat_get_dentry() 2021-12-16 21:30:53 +09:00
README.md exfat: fix typo 2020-02-10 21:35:58 +09:00
super.c exfat: allow access to paths with trailing dots 2022-03-18 22:24:29 +09:00

exFAT filesystem

This is the exfat filesystem for support from the linux 4.1 kernel to the latest kernel.

Installing as a stand-alone module

Install prerequisite package for Fedora, RHEL:

	yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)

Build step:

	make
	sudo make install

To load the driver manually, run this as root:

	modprobe exfat

Installing as a part of the kernel

  1. Let's take [linux] as the path to your kernel source dir.
	cd [linux]
	cp -ar exfat [linux]/fs/
  1. edit [linux]/fs/Kconfig
	source "fs/fat/Kconfig"
	+source "fs/exfat/Kconfig"
	source "fs/ntfs/Kconfig"
  1. edit [linux]/fs/Makefile
	obj-$(CONFIG_FAT_FS)          += fat/
	+obj-$(CONFIG_EXFAT_FS)       += exfat/
	obj-$(CONFIG_BFS_FS)          += bfs/
  1. make menuconfig and set exfat
	File systems  --->
		DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems  --->
			<M> exFAT filesystem support
			(utf8) Default iocharset for exFAT

build your kernel