Re: [Bug] possible deadlock in vfs_rmdir in Linux kernel v6.12

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 05:44:22PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Malicious in what sense? Is it just junk, or is it attempting to have
> > maintainers perform some potentially dangerous operation?
> 
> Well, useless it is for certain but links like:
> 
> Bug Report: https://hastebin.com/share/pihohaniwi.bash
> 
> Entire Log: https://hastebin.com/share/orufevoquj.perl
> 
> are rather suspicious and suggest there's more in there than just a lack of
> knowledge (but now that I've tried the suffixes seem to be automatically
> added by some filetype detection logic in the hastebin.com site itself so
> more likely this is not malicious after all). FWIW I've downloaded one of
> the files through wget and looked into it and it seems to have a reasonable
> content and does not seem malicious but it is difficult to be sure in the
> maze of HTML and JS...

Yes, hence my question. I think it's just a bad medium. It's actually the kind
of thing that bugzilla is okay to use for -- create a bug with attachments and
report it to the list, so maybe the original author can use that instead of
pastebin sites?

-K