Re: Serious bug in recent Linux kernels

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 17:16:15 +0000 (GMT)


> Anybody who knows about this one?

Yep

> I think this bug affects all architectures, not only Linux/m68k.
> Since I'm not on linux-kernel, could you forward this to the apropriate
> person/mailing list?

The -ac tree returns -EINVAL on an overflow. Unix98 doesnt have an error
return for such overflows so there is still a question on how to do it
right

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