Re: [PATCH] xfs: detect cycles in recovered unlinked inode lists

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:02:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> (Does xfs_repair fix the problem if the mount fails?)

More importantly, what are we trying to fix here?  What is the
motivation?  And how are we going to test this code, as right now
we trade a potential issue with a crafted malicious image (which isn't
our usual threat model) against adding new code run at mountime without
any test coverage.