From: Stephane Dudzinski (stephane at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 11 Oct 2001 - 11:35:38 IST
Got f**** hurt once and killed a full box running reiserfs on redhat 7.1
by using 2.4.10 on an AMD. Will stick on 2.4.9 until the clouds are gone
and it shines again.
That was my weather forecast kernel wise.
Steph
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 11:30, John P. Looney wrote:
> Ouch. Watch it, if you are using 2.4.11
>
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> Subject: Uhhuh.. 2.4.12
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
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>
> 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
>
> -----
> final:
> - Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)
> - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes
> - Al Viro: more mount cleanup
> - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling
> - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup
> - Tim Waugh: parport update
> - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
>
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