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Re: Proposal: validate FFS root inode during the mount.
> During the fuzzing of FFS filesystem, we had a couple of issues
> caused by corrupted inode fields. [...]
> To make sure that corrupted mount won't cause harm to the user, I
> want to add function to validate root inode on mount step (after
> superblock validation)
Don't you have more or less the same issue with every other non-free
inode in the filesystem? The only thing I can see that's special about
the root inode in this regard is that it is the only inode that is used
immediately upon mount.
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