Re: BK2CVS problem

[Matthew Dharm]

Out of curiosity, what were the changed lines?

Matt

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:45:22PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Somebody has modified the CVS tree on kernel.bkbits.net directly.  Dave looked
> at the machine and it looked like someone may have been trying to break in and
> do it.  
> 
> We've fixed the file in question, the conversion is done back here at BitMover
> and after we transfer the files we check them and make sure they are OK and 
> this file got flagged.  
> 
> The CVS tree is fine, you might want to remove and update exit.c to make sure
> you have the current version in your tree however.
> 
> The problem file is kernel/exit.c which has a few extra entries like so:
> 
>     revision 1.121
>     date: 2003/11/04 16:44:19;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +58 -0
>     Oops, I worked on the  the wrong file, fixed again.
>     ----------------------------
>     revision 1.120
>     date: 2003/11/04 16:42:00;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -58
>     *** empty log message ***
>     ----------------------------
>     revision 1.119
>     date: 2003/11/04 16:22:47;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
>     *** empty log message ***
>     ----------------------------
>     revision 1.118
>     date: 2003/10/27 19:50:03;  author: torvalds;  state: Exp;  lines: +11 -5
>     Fix ZOMBIE race with self-reaping threads.
> 
>     exit_notify() used to leave a window open when a thread
>     died that made the thread visible as a ZOMBIE even though
>     the thread reaped itself. This closes that window by marking
>     the thread DEAD within the tasklist_lock.
> 
>     (Logical change 1.14141)
>     ----------------------------
> 
> Notice how the top 3 do not have the (Logical change X.YZ) at the end?
> That is a pointer so you can figure out the changeset boundaries and
> it is added back here during the conversion process.  The file here is
> fine which leads me to believe that someone modified the file either on
> kernel.bkbits.net or managed to get in through the pserver.  Dave swears
> up and down that it wasn't him so if anyone can step forward and claim
> responsibility that would be nice.
> 
> It's not a big deal, we catch stuff like this, but it's annoying to the 
> CVS users.
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