linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:20:38 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Mikhail Efremov <sem@...linux.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Yecchhhh...  Applied, but it's very ugly.  Oh, well - regression is
> regression, and I don't see a cleaner fix at the moment.  If I don't
> manage to come up with anything prettier, to Linus it goes in tonight
> pull request ;-/

Please don't. That thing is too ugly to exist. It also looks
completely and utterly buggy. There's no way I'm taking it. If
switch-names is suddenly conditional, what the f*ck happens to the
name hash which is unconditionally done with a swap() right
afterwards.

There's no way that patch is correct.

           Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/