linux-kernel - Re: possible viri in tarballs?

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Date:	Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:08:50 -0600
From:	Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Gene Heskett <gheskett@...v.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possible viri in tarballs?

Gene,

How big is the file you have?      Here is what I have, and this is
from several different kernels.

 wc gadget_multi.txt
 150  830 5482 gadget_multi.tx

cksum gadget_multi.txt
3973522114 5482 gadget_multi.txt

ls -l gadget_multi.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5482 Dec 20 09:51 gadget_multi.txt

If you size/cksum is different something modified your file


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >/home/gene/src/linux-3.2.40/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt:
>> >MBL_400944.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
>>
>> You will see more history.
>>
>> So that file needs sanitized.  I was under the impression that a file with
>> the .txt extension was supposed to be pure ascii text, but its loaded to
>> the gills with some sort of markup crap.  And I have at least 20 copies of
>> it.
>
> Huh?   There are lines with
>
> * Overview
>
> ...
>
> ** Linux host drivers
>
> ...
>
> in that file, sure.  But I'd hardly call that "loaded to the gills
> with markup crap".
>
> If the file was had any amount of XML or XHTML2, that would be markup
> crap.  But some Twiki style ascii markup is hardly a problem -- it
> looks just fine when viewed in a text reader.
>
>                                  - Ted
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