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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:55:20 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/30] xfs: Define usercopy region in xfs_inode slab cache
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> One thing I've been wondering is wether we should actually just
> get rid of the online area. Compared to reading an inode from
> disk a single additional kmalloc is negligible, and not having the
> inline data / extent list would allow us to reduce the inode size
> significantly.
>
> Kees/David: how many of these patches are file systems with some
> sort of inline data? Given that it's only about 30 patches declaring
> allocations either entirely valid for user copy or not might end up
> being nicer in many ways than these offsets.
9 filesystems use some form of inline data: xfs, vxfs, ufs, orangefs,
exofs, befs, jfs, ext2, and ext4. How much of each slab is whitelisted
varies by filesystem (e.g. ext2/4 uses i_data for other things, but
ufs and orangefs and have a dedicate field for symlink names).
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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