Re: kernel 2.4.12 Re: dd & cat

["roy lo" <roylo@example.com>]

Yes, Sccot is right
And I wrongly suggest you all who are running 2.4.11 to upgrade

Here are the words from Linus (the reason):

"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"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.12 Re: dd & cat


> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, roylo wrote:
>
> > in case you didn't know
> > 2.4.12 is out
>
> on the US mirrors, 2.4.11 is marked "2.4.11-dontuse" ... I think 2.4.11
> was a Big Mistake, I've heard that it's evil.  2.4.12-ac3 is probably what
> you want to use at this point.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tobias Diedrich" <ranma@example.com>
> > To: "TLUG" <tlug@example.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: dd & cat
> >
> >
> > > BOTi wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm running kernel 2.4.10, and dd of fileutils 4.1-7.
> > > > Is this a memleak in dd, or AA has screwed the kernel with the
latest VM
> > > >  tweaks ?
> > >
> > > plain 2.4.10 ?
> > > 2.4.10 is really broken wrt. VM...
> > > Try the latest 2.4.11-pre-patch or the Alan Cox tree.
> > > (The latter is more stable then Linus tree at the moment...)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tobias PGP: 0x9AC7E0BC
> > > Hannover Fantreffen ML:
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> > > Manga & Anime Treff Hannover: http://www.mantrha.de/
> > >
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