Re: [PATCH 03/11] fs: Allow superblock owner to change ownership of inodes

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 04:10:54PM +0100, Dongsu Park wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Dongsu Park wrote:
> > I think this patch would read much better and easier to review if it was
> > split up by first adding the helpers, and then extending them afterwards.
> 
> I'm fine with splitting it up into multiple patches, if the original author
> Eric agrees.

Great.

> > Are we sure proc is the only special one? How was it observed first that this was
> > require for proc? Has anyone tried fuzzing by trying this op with a slew of other
> > filesystems on all files?
>
> Please let me know if there are other good ways to figure out potential issues.

I think the trick would be to create a test which mimicks the issue and then try to
mount and run the test against as many filesystems as we support. So would developing
a test be possible here?

  Luis