linux-kernel - Re: [Bug Report] OOB-read BUG in HFS+ filesystem

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Message-ID: <20250414-behielt-erholen-e0cd10a4f7af@brauner>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:18:27 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: now4yreal <now4yreal@...mail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>, Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
	Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, Stone <leocstone@...il.com>, 
	Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>, 
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug Report] OOB-read BUG in HFS+ filesystem

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:45:25PM +0800, now4yreal wrote:
> Dear Linux Security Maintainers,
> I would like to report a OOB-read vulnerability in the HFS+ file
> system, which I discovered using our in-house developed kernel fuzzer,
> Symsyz.

Bug reports from non-official syzbot instances are generally not
accepted.

hfs and hfsplus are orphaned filesystems since at least 2014. Bug
reports for such filesystems won't receive much attention from the core
maintainers.

I'm very very close to putting them on the chopping block as they're
slowly turning into pointless burdens.