Re: Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug

[Eric Sandeen]

Neil Brown wrote:

> Putting it another way,
>  ext3_get_dentry reject certain inums that are known to be a problem.
>  ext2_get_dentry allows only those inums that could possibly be ok.
>
> So if you (anyone) prefer one approach over the other, making the
> change so they both fs take the same approach would be trivial.

I like the 2nd approach - seems simpler, takes care of everything in 
->get_dentry, right?.  But I think your original patch is all that will 
work for 2.4 kernels...

-Eric
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