linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: harden inode lookup for 32-bit platforms

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Message-ID: <20181011084413.3sovzgsj6pzyrml7@mwanda>
Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:44:13 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, weidu.du@...wei.com,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: harden inode lookup for 32-bit platforms

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?

regards,
dan carpenter