> > Chris Evans writes:
> >
> > > Oh yeah. So, question, what's the ext2_i.i_version used by?
> > > I suppose I withdraw my objection to letting users set it!
> >
> > The NFS server is supposed to use i_version. Don't think of
> > i_version as a file version like VMS has. The BSD name, i_gen,
> > more accurately indicates that this is a generation number.
>
> The fixed knfsd does use ext2_i.i_version. Don't touch it.
I don't intend to.... however, the original comment (by me) is that ext2
exposes an ioctl() that lets users play with ext2_i.i_version arbitrarily.
On files they own, anyway.
Question. Could a malicious user interfere with/break knfsd by playing
games with ext2_i.i_version values on their files?
Cheers
Chris
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