Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:18:08 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: harden inode lookup for 32-bit platforms |
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 05:46:26PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > > > On 2018/10/11 16:44, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:07:13PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > >> This patch introduces inode hash function, test and set callbacks, > >> and iget5_locked to find the right inode for 32-bit platforms. > >> > > > > The way I read this changelog, we're trying to deal with corrupt file > > systems? Is that correct? Presumably in the current code it could lead > > to a Oops or something? > > No, this commit isn't trying to deal with corrupt file systems. > In EROFS, the nid is not continuous and it represents the inode offset > inode offset = nid * 32. > Therefore the nid is 64-bit both for 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. However, > i_ino is 'unsigned long', which means for 32-bit platforms, i_ino is not enough > to contain the nid. > > Therefore, we should use iget5_locked for this case.
I guess what I'm saying is, what are the user visible effects of this patch? It's hard for me to tell from the patch description. Could you please re-write the description and send a v2?
regards, dan carpenter
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