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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>,
	reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vs@namesys.botik.ru
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:41:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010110174141.F22197@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75150000.979093424@tiny> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101092129380.11512-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101092129380.11512-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:47:17AM -0500

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:47:17AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Chris, I seriously suspect that it's not that simple (read: trace is a
> BS). 0x20b is just too large for filldir().
[..]
> and we don't trigger them... Fsck knows. copy_to_user() and put_user() should
> not be able to screw the kernel stack.

That's what I said Chris yesterday.

Andrea
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-10 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20010110023208.B296@cerebro.laendle>
2001-01-10  2:23 ` [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Chris Mason
2001-01-10  4:43   ` David Ford
2001-01-10  5:47   ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 15:48     ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10 17:38       ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 18:48         ` Chris Mason
2001-01-11  0:47           ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 16:41     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-01-10 16:02   ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-01-10 16:09     ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10 16:29       ` [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux) Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-01-10 17:03     ` [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Stefan Traby
2001-01-10 17:11       ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-10  2:40 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-11 11:05   ` Hans Reiser
2001-01-09 23:42 Marc Lehmann
2001-01-10  0:43 ` [reiserfs-list] " John Morrison
2001-01-10  0:51 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10  0:56 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-01-10 13:08   ` Gnea
2001-01-10 11:03 ` Dirk Mueller

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