New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:53:01PM +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> Now for the bit people might not like, the FP exception isn't the only
> patch in there since I was already about to roll out a new kernel
> anyway with the following trond NFS server patch (for talking to OSX
> 10.3 and FreeBSD clients):
> 
>   http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/Linux-2.4.x/2.4.23-rc1/linux-2.4.23-03-fix_osx.dif

Can the list please give some opinions on whether this fix should be
added into the next .legacy kernel which I'm preparing? I'm assuming
that the patch has been fairly well tested by now. As always, there is a
fine line between adding functionality which could come with it more
bugs, and providing wanted fixes. We really really need to get this one
out of the door in the next week or so, I think, otherwise we are just
going to get left behind with the next round of inevitable fixes.

Cheers,

Dominic.