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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/afs/xdr_fs.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/afs/xdr_fs.h b/fs/afs/xdr_fs.h index 94f1f398eefa..c926430fd08a 100644 --- a/fs/afs/xdr_fs.h +++ b/fs/afs/xdr_fs.h @@ -54,10 +54,15 @@ union afs_xdr_dirent { __be16 hash_next; __be32 vnode; __be32 unique; - u8 name[16]; - u8 overflow[4]; /* if any char of the name (inc - * NUL) reaches here, consume - * the next dirent too */ + u8 name[]; + /* When determining the number of dirent slots needed to + * represent a directory entry, name should be assumed to be 16 + * bytes, due to a now-standardised (mis)calculation, but it is + * in fact 20 bytes in size. + * + * For names longer than (16 or) 20 bytes, extra slots should + * be annexed to this one using the extended_name format. + */ } u; u8 extended_name[32]; } __packed; |