Re: Linux ISO-9660 Rock Ridge bug needs fix

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 17:47:14 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 23:39 +0200, ysgrifennodd Joerg Schilling:
> Wrong inode numbes do not open holes, they just create a garbage in garbage out
> behavior, but they will not cause the OS to panic.

Thats implementation dependant as people who stress OS environments and
do fuzz testing have provided again and again and again - including a
previous Linux over ext3 case. There isn't exactly any hurry - its
evident from the lack of reports that you are the first tool author
whose beta tool even uses this feature.

> The unfixed bugs in the Linux iso-9660 implementation on the other side allow
> me to create a CD that causes Linux to panic without taking me a long time.

And those should indeed be fixed.

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