Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 17:03:02 EST


On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 13:59, Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> though I don't think
> leaking raw kernel pointers is an awesome idea.

Yeah, I wasn't all that comfortable even with trying to hash it
(because I think the number of source bits is small enough that even
with a crypto hash, it's trivially brute-forceable).

See

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240122152748.46897388@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

for the current patch under discussion (and it contains a link _to_
said discussion).

Linus