On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 08:22:07PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > 2) the filesystem has been altered (fuzzing? deliberate doctoring?). > > None of these seem like legitimate use cases so I'm arguing that we > shouldn't worry about them. Not worry seems like the wrong answer here. Either we decide they are legitimate enough and we preserve them, or we decide they are bogus and refuse reading the inode. But we'll need to consciously deal with the case.