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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani <kirtiar15502@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	"cc: Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	security@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for a overwriting/corruption of the file system
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:00:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230421030017.GA3390869@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADZg-m1uBXit9gX0bcZQ3vWvg34J_sLX-df32x+JX=bjtJeg0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 02:33:48PM +0530, Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani wrote:
> While I am going through the code at the moment, I think there is one more
> issue. It probably can't just compare "old_dir" and "new_dir", since those
> are just pointers to structs. So, both addresses can be completely
> different, and still represent the same folder, yes?

No, they can not.  We should never have different in-core instances of
struct inode representing the same on-disk object - otherwise all locking
goes to hell, for example.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-21  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CADZg-m0Z+dOGfG=ddJxqPvgFwG0+OLAyP157SNzj6R6J2p7L-g@mail.gmail.com>
2023-03-13 10:16 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <CADZg-m04XELrO-v-uYZ4PyYHXVPX35dgWbCHBpZvwepS4XV9Ew@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <CADZg-m2k_L8-byX0WKYw5Cj1JPPhxk3HCBexpqPtZvcLRNY8Ug@mail.gmail.com>
2023-03-13 10:32       ` Greg KH
2023-03-14  9:55         ` Christian Brauner
2023-03-14 16:57           ` Al Viro
2023-03-14 17:13             ` Christian Brauner
     [not found]               ` <CADZg-m3w_xJ3cQS=+-yb7iS5PJg8kGHntMb7poP6tOsOXvnDeQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CADZg-m1uBXit9gX0bcZQ3vWvg34J_sLX-df32x+JX=bjtJeg0w@mail.gmail.com>
2023-04-21  3:00                   ` Al Viro [this message]
2023-04-21  3:05                     ` Al Viro

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