CIFS: Rename bug on servers not supporting inode numbers

[NamJae Jeon]

2011/11/4 Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>:
> What is the actual sequence of events from the wire perspective (the
> actual smb requests sent)?
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> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 3 Nov 2011, at 17:40, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:42:13 +0000 Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I should add that we are using iocharset=utf8 mount option which means that the dcache hash/compare functions done in the cifs module do not work because it uses nls_tolower() and nls_strnicmp() both of which for utf8 NLS in the kernel do not do anything at all and effectively behave case sensitively!
>>>>
>>>> Thus this bug/problem in all likelyhood only affects utf8 iocharset users on a case-insensitive but case-preserving CIFS server that does not support server inode numbers.

Hi.
There is no upper/lower case table on nls utf8. so If you use iocharset=utf8,
filesystem will be case sensitive.
so we can add upper/lower case table like other charset.
And Currently surrogate pair is not working on nls utf8.
because it is limited by MAX_WCHAR_T in nls utf8
I think that upper/lower case table and surrogate pair support should
be fixed on nls utf8.
I should know Andrew's opinion to fix these problem.
>>>>
>>>> That probably explains why it has not been noticed before!
>>>>
>>>> We need utf8 thus we still need to fix this issue.
>>
>>> I'm confused...
>>>
>>> If the filesystem being served out by the server is using utf8, then
>>> how is it handling the case-insensitivity?
>>
>>
>> The file system being served is NSS (the Netware one but now mounted on Open Enterprise Server with Linux kernel rather than actual Netware kernel).  No idea how it works I am afraid.  It supports lots of different namespaces as well as being case-insensitive and case preserving when using the LONG name space (which is now being served through CIFS).
>>
>> If it was NTFS or exFAT I could tell you exactly how they work (each volume has an upcase table mapping the 65536 UCS-2 Unicode characters to their upper case equivalents and each 16-bit character is upper-cased individually, more recently Windows has switched to using UTF-16 instead of UCS-2 and the upcase table changed when that happened though it remained the same size and I think for file system purposes the fact that there are surrogates in the above UCS-2   Unicode range is simply ignored)...
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>        Anton
>> --
>> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
>> Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
>> Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
>>
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> Steve
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