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.carpen...@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.schucha...@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