Subject: Uhhuh.. 2.4.12
From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 00:04:49 AKDT
2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke
the creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it
caused the inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink,
with unhappy end results).
Happily nobody uses that particular horror - or _almost_ nobody does.
It looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes
a
nasty unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11.
("debugfs -w rootdev" + "rm /dev/mouse" will remove it, although I
suspect there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn't
seem to notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this
actually happening so far).
So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel
that 2.4.11 was.
Linus
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