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* Uhhuh.. 2.4.12
@ 2001-10-11  8:04 Linus Torvalds
  2001-10-11  8:30 ` Linus Torvalds
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2001-10-11  8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke the
creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it caused the
inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink, with unhappy
end results).

Happily nobody uses that particular horror - or _almost_ nobody does. It
looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes a nasty
unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11.

("debugfs -w rootdev" + "rm /dev/mouse" will remove it, although I suspect
there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn't seem to
notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this actually happening
so far).

So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that
2.4.11 was.

		Linus

-----
final:
 - Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)
 - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes
 - Al Viro: more mount cleanup
 - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling
 - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup
 - Tim Waugh: parport update
 - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates


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2001-10-11  8:04 Uhhuh.. 2.4.12 Linus Torvalds
2001-10-11  8:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-11  8:41   ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-11  8:59     ` J . A . Magallon
2001-10-11 10:14     ` T. A.
2001-10-11  8:42   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-10-11  8:50     ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-11  8:51       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-10-11 11:35   ` Marco Colombo
2001-10-11 11:54     ` Alan Cox

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