From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: require verified birth date for file creation
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 14:01:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401210118.GE2466@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260401-i-hope-someone-believes-this-is-real-04f24e03944e@brauner>
On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 02:43:21PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> + u16 birthdate_year;
Shouldn't this be a u32 so that we don't have to rush to update this in
the year 65535? Maybe even an arbitrary-length integer stored in a
separate allocation, so that this won't have to be revisited.
> + if (age < 18)
Probably should go with something a bit higher to ensure it's sufficient
for all jurisdictions. Maybe 50?
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-01 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-01 12:43 [PATCH] vfs: require verified birth date for file creation Christian Brauner
2026-04-01 13:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-01 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-04-01 21:01 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-04-02 0:56 ` Yury Norov
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2026-04-01 16:29 Alexey Dobriyan
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