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Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 10:52:10 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: jdow <jdow@...thlink.net>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?
On 04/27/2018 03:26 AM, jdow wrote:
> And before I forget there are two features of the RDBs that I heartily recommend never implementing on Linux. They were good ideas at the time; but, times
> changed. The RDBs are capable of storing a filesystem driver and some drive init code for the plugin disk driver card. That is giving malware authors entirely
> goo easy a shot at owning a machine. Martin S., I would strongly suggest that going forward those two capabilities be removed from the RDB readers in AmigaOS
> as well as Linux OS.
I assume removing the feature for AmigaOS isn't really possible since we don't have
the source code for that, do we?
Also, if I remember correctly, Mac partitions can store filesystem drivers as well
and its actually a feature being used in MacOS. parted received a patch some time
ago to fix the correct handling for storing the filesystem driver in the partition
table.
I would be generally against removing these features as I don't think the security
risk is relevant for the majority of users. The Amiga is a hobbyist machine these
days and AmigaOS has certainly way more on than way to be compromised through
vulnerabilities.
Adrian
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