From: GertJan Spoelman <kl@gjs.cc>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Clemmitt Sigler <siglercm@jrt.me.vt.edu>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <Alan.Cox@linux.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed?
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:47:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211290047.35752.kl@gjs.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021128224930.GA5861@win.tue.nl>
On Thursday 28 November 2002 23:49, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:55:48AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Ah, ha. I think I know what happened.
> >
> > What version of e2fsprogs were you using? If it was 1.28, that would
> > explain what you saw. There was a fencepost error that could corrupt
> > directories when it was optimizing/rehashing them. This bug was fixed
> > in in the next version, which was rushed out the door as a result of
> > this bug. Fortunately, 1.28 didn't get adopted by any distro's as far
> > as I know
>
> Hmm. On a recently installed SuSE 8.1 machine:
>
> % rpm -qf `which e2fsck`
> e2fsprogs-1.28-18
>
> (maybe the -18 contains the fix?)
No, see below, I copied it from the SuSE security list.
>> This could be slightly off-topic, but isn't data corruption security
>> related?
>> SuSE 8.1 was delivered with e2fsprogs-1.28, which has a "fencepost
>> error" (???) which could cause directory corruption.
>
> According to the maintainer of our e2fsprogs package, this referes to the
> htree (hash tree) stuff in e2fsprogs which is *not* enabled in
> SuSEs version of e2fsprogs.
>
> HTH
>
> best regards,
> Rainer Link
> (SuSE Labs)
--
GertJan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-28 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-25 5:12 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed? Clemmitt Sigler
2002-11-25 10:57 ` Hugo Mills
2002-11-25 14:21 ` Clemmitt Sigler
2002-11-26 3:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-25 17:15 ` Matthias Andree
2002-11-25 17:39 ` Tomas Konir
2002-11-25 18:37 ` Clemmitt Sigler
2002-11-26 2:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-26 15:55 ` Clemmitt Sigler
2002-11-27 12:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-27 14:28 ` Clemmitt Sigler
2002-11-28 22:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-28 23:47 ` GertJan Spoelman [this message]
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2002-11-27 13:39 Margit Schubert-While
2002-11-27 15:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-27 20:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
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