broken extraction/viewing fix from tarfs

me at pavelsh.pp.ru me at pavelsh.pp.ru
Mon Nov 29 18:44:38 UTC 2004


Hello Jindrich,

Monday, November 29, 2004, 9:08:15 PM, you wrote:

JN> Hi,

JN> this patch fixes broken extraction and displaying of symlinks from
JN> tarfs, but possibly affects any vfs that uses vfs_s_readlink ().

JN> To see description and steps to reproduce please see:
JN> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=141065

JN> In vfs_s_readlink () there is incorrectly calculated length of buf
JN> instead of link name in the inode. The random size you may see when
JN> extracting symlinks from tarfs is caused by the fact that buf is mostly
JN> uninitialized so the link is truncated almost at random position.


Committed. Thx!

-- 
Best regards,
 me                            mailto:me at pavelsh.pp.ru




More information about the mc-devel mailing list