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SubjectRe: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:47:17AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Chris, I seriously suspect that it's not that simple (read: trace is a
> BS). 0x20b is just too large for filldir().
[..]
> and we don't trigger them... Fsck knows. copy_to_user() and put_user() should
> not be able to screw the kernel stack.

That's what I said Chris yesterday.

Andrea
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