From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:42:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs Message-Id: <20060907164207.16745087.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <44FC193C.4080205@openvz.org> <44FFF1A0.2060907@openvz.org> <20060907200713.GB541@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20060907200713.GB541@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kirill Korotaev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Fernando Vazquez , "David S. Miller" , tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, xemul@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:07:14 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:17:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > > > > > Does the patch below looks better? > > > > Yes. > > > > Apart from the whitespace corruption, that is. > > > > I don't know how to get mozilla to not screw up whitespace. Me either. I've had a bug report in the mozilla system for maybe four years concerning space-stuffing. Occasionally it comes to life but afaict nothing ever changes. I expect it'd be pretty easy to undo the space-stuffing in git. In extremis I just do s/^ /^ / and it works. An automated solution would need to recognise the appropriate headers (Format=Flowed, iirc). > maybe by using it to download mutt or something saner ? :-) > > More seriously, while we don't like email attachments because they make > it impossible to comment on a patch, maybe we should encourage people > with broken mailers to post small patches in both forms : > - pure text for human review (spaces are not much of a problem here) > - MIME to apply the patch. argh. That means that email contains two copies of the patch. So it applies with `patch --dry-run' then causes havoc with `patch'