Re: [PATCH 01/10] fs: turn inode ctime fields into a single ktime_t

Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02T07:37:55Z

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 08:22:07PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 2) the filesystem has been altered (fuzzing? deliberate doctoring?).
>
> None of these seem like legitimate use cases so I'm arguing that we
> shouldn't worry about them.

Not worry seems like the wrong answer here. Either we decide they
are legitimate enough and we preserve them, or we decide they are
bogus and refuse reading the inode. But we'll need to consciously
deal with the case.