Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:58:13 -0800 | | From | Matthew Dharm <> | | Subject | Re: BK2CVS problem |
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Out of curiosity, what were the changed lines?
Matt
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:45:22PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > Somebody has modified the CVS tree on kernel.bkbits.net directly. Dave looked > at the machine and it looked like someone may have been trying to break in and > do it. > > We've fixed the file in question, the conversion is done back here at BitMover > and after we transfer the files we check them and make sure they are OK and > this file got flagged. > > The CVS tree is fine, you might want to remove and update exit.c to make sure > you have the current version in your tree however. > > The problem file is kernel/exit.c which has a few extra entries like so: > > revision 1.121 > date: 2003/11/04 16:44:19; author: davem; state: Exp; lines: +58 -0 > Oops, I worked on the the wrong file, fixed again. > ---------------------------- > revision 1.120 > date: 2003/11/04 16:42:00; author: davem; state: Exp; lines: +0 -58 > *** empty log message *** > ---------------------------- > revision 1.119 > date: 2003/11/04 16:22:47; author: davem; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0 > *** empty log message *** > ---------------------------- > revision 1.118 > date: 2003/10/27 19:50:03; author: torvalds; state: Exp; lines: +11 -5 > Fix ZOMBIE race with self-reaping threads. > > exit_notify() used to leave a window open when a thread > died that made the thread visible as a ZOMBIE even though > the thread reaped itself. This closes that window by marking > the thread DEAD within the tasklist_lock. > > (Logical change 1.14141) > ---------------------------- > > Notice how the top 3 do not have the (Logical change X.YZ) at the end? > That is a pointer so you can figure out the changeset boundaries and > it is added back here during the conversion process. The file here is > fine which leads me to believe that someone modified the file either on > kernel.bkbits.net or managed to get in through the pserver. Dave swears > up and down that it wasn't him so if anyone can step forward and claim > responsibility that would be nice. > > It's not a big deal, we catch stuff like this, but it's annoying to the > CVS users. > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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