2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke the
creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it caused the
inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink, with unhappy
end results).
Happily nobody uses that particular horror - or _almost_ nobody does. It
looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes a nasty
unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11.
("debugfs -w rootdev" + "rm /dev/mouse" will remove it, although I suspect
there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn't seem to
notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this actually happening
so far).
So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that
2.4.11 was.
[^] # Re: Déjà ?
Posté par syntaxerror . En réponse à la dépêche Noyau Linux 2.4.12 disponible. Évalué à 10.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100278783829494&(...)
2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke the
creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it caused the
inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink, with unhappy
end results).
Happily nobody uses that particular horror - or _almost_ nobody does. It
looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes a nasty
unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11.
("debugfs -w rootdev" + "rm /dev/mouse" will remove it, although I suspect
there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn't seem to
notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this actually happening
so far).
So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that
2.4.11 was.
Linus
> Et le 2.4.12 ?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100278942302162&(...)
>So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that
>2.4.11 was.
>
> - Tim Waugh: parport update
.. which is broken.
Not a good week.
On the other hand, the good news is that I'll open 2.5.x RSN, just
because Alan is so much better at maintaining things ;)
Linus