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ext4: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:15:52 +0000 (11:15 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:15:52 +0000 (11:15 -0400)
commit9d9f177572d9e4eba0f2e18523b44f90dd51fe74
tree91104778c9f4bc15fc483e44314733818865b264
parentcf17fea6575cb1739552e1d0cb2b446305ee3d0c
ext4: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

Note: some people thinks this represents a security bug, since it
might make the system go away while it is printing a large number of
console messages, especially if a serial console is involved.  Hence,
it has been assigned CVE-2008-3528, but it requires that the attacker
either has physical access to your machine to insert a USB disk with a
corrupted filesystem image (at which point why not just hit the power
button), or is otherwise able to convince the system administrator to
mount an arbitrary filesystem image (at which point why not just
include a setuid shell or world-writable hard disk device file or some
such).  Me, I think they're just being silly. --tytso

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
fs/ext4/dir.c