From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why UDF have so ugly filesize limit?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:15:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4627A3C3.8050108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070419181221.59c3c7bd@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:56:27 -0400
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Marat Buharov wrote:
>>> from fs/udf/super.c:
>>> in function udf_fill_super
>>> sb->s_maxbytes = 1<<30; (1 GB)
>>>
>>> Why sb->s_maxbytes is not equal to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE?
>>>
>> Patches to fix that are in the -mm kernel already (and in
>> Fedora Core 6 latest update.)
>
> Good to know, presumably these also fix the underlying UDF problems in the
> UDF filesystem code that caused it to be put there in the first pace ?
>
> (Security CVE-2006-4145)
Yeah, the patches are by Jan Kara who put the original limitation
in there as a temporary band-aid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-19 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 13:55 why UDF have so ugly filesize limit? Marat Buharov
2007-04-19 16:56 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-19 17:12 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-19 17:15 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-04-20 20:52 ` Jan Kara
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