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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug
Date: 21 Mar 2002 12:14:33 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203200943230.3615-100000@xanadu.home>
By author:    Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > > Removable media?
> > > 
> > > Most if not all removable media are not ment to be used with JFFS2.
> > 
> > Nothing is _meant_ to be exploited either.  Someone could
> > create a cdrom with jffs2 (linux don't demand that cd's use iso9660)
> 
> But JFFS2 demands to be used with AN MTD device, not a block device.  And
> most MTD device, if not all of them, on which JFFS2 is used aren't
> removable.
> 

Isn't this whole discussion a bit silly?  If I'm not mistaken, we're
talking about a one-line known fix here...

	-hpa
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