2008-06-06 18:18:01

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [Bug 10871] New: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:43:38 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10871
>
> Summary: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem

This gentleman has fuzzed his ext2 filesystem and it apparently broke.

ext3 broke worse, but no details on that yet.

I cheekily cc'ed Eric on the report as he likes this stuff so much :)


2008-06-09 03:39:00

by Eric Sandeen

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Subject: Re: [Bug 10871] New: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:43:38 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:
>
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10871
>>
>> Summary: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem
>
> This gentleman has fuzzed his ext2 filesystem and it apparently broke.
>
> ext3 broke worse, but no details on that yet.
>
> I cheekily cc'ed Eric on the report as he likes this stuff so much :)

Love it... LOVE IT! :)

But seriously, it's hard to argue with a reproducible testcase. :)

-Eric