Re: [PATCH 01/10] fs: turn inode ctime fields into a single ktime_t
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2024-07-02 07:37:55
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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.