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

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 18:03:28 EST


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 02:02:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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).

Ah, cool, thank you!

--D

> Linus