Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:03:56 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:14:33PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203200943230.3615-100000@xanadu.home> > By author: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > > Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > > > > > Removable media? > > > > > > > > Most if not all removable media are not ment to be used with JFFS2. > > > > > > Nothing is _meant_ to be exploited either. Someone could > > > create a cdrom with jffs2 (linux don't demand that cd's use iso9660) > > > > But JFFS2 demands to be used with AN MTD device, not a block device. And > > most MTD device, if not all of them, on which JFFS2 is used aren't > > removable. > > Isn't this whole discussion a bit silly? If I'm not mistaken, we're > talking about a one-line known fix here...
It's getting there. The 'issue' is that the best way to fix it (maybe 2.4.20-pre1 even) is to backport the 2.5 zlib which doesn't have this problem and removes most of the copies of zlib from the kernel. If it's not really a problem now, why fix it? (Tho it should be a safe fix now that Paul has produced a patch which doesn't suffer from random oopses or other problems).
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