Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [BUG?]Set XIP mount option on ext2 bypass check. | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:22:41 +0200 |
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On Thursday 21 June 2007, Carsten Otte wrote: > > This is an updated version of my bugfix patch. Yan Zheng pointed out, > that ext2_remount lacks checking if -o xip should be enabled or not. > This patch checks for presence of direct_access on the backing block > device and if the blocksize meets the requirements. > Andrew, please consider adding this patch to -mm. > > Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
It looks to me like a local denial of service attack in case of user-mountable ext2 file systems in /etc/fstab.
Shouldn't that make it go into 2.6.22?
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