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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: detect cycles in recovered unlinked inode lists
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 01:30:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <agwfrZAchLLFX7c7@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519050235.GI9568@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:02:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> (Does xfs_repair fix the problem if the mount fails?)

More importantly, what are we trying to fix here?  What is the
motivation?  And how are we going to test this code, as right now
we trade a potential issue with a crafted malicious image (which isn't
our usual threat model) against adding new code run at mountime without
any test coverage.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-19  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-18  1:31 [PATCH] xfs: detect cycles in recovered unlinked inode lists Michael Bommarito
2026-05-19  5:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-05-19  8:30   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-05-19 12:48     ` Michael Bommarito
2026-05-20 12:19       ` Carlos Maiolino
2026-05-20 12:46         ` Michael Bommarito

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