On 3/22/18 10:25 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> It make sense to check that it's available before running it, but I think >> hardcoding paths runs the risk of missing it if it's somewhere unique. > OTOH hardcoding the path (since we control where xfs_repair gets > installed) means that we avoid the "someone poisoned PATH" attack. I'm > not sure I buy that argument since if you have root access you probably > can just bind mount a garbage atop /sbin/xfs_repair, but eh. But this is the initramfs, right? Do we really have any idea where things land? Do initramfs paths follow the installed system paths? (maybe?) -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
