Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> If you have the diffs ready then it would be great if you could do that. > (Did the maxbytes stuff enter the mainstream kernel yet? Are you going to > feed them together? Or will that be dropped for now?) maxbytes got to Linus. The checks using it are not all there, but maxbytes went in early

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 23:11 15/04/2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream > > kernel instead? Thanks. > >Want me to feed them to Linus or will you do it ? If you have the diffs ready then it would be great if you could do that. (Did the maxbytes stuff en

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream > kernel instead? Thanks. Want me to feed them to Linus or will you do it ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > >Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much > > larger than expected, which could lead to accessing random data. The > > fixup should fail then, and this is also patched below. > > > > No it can't (

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much > larger than expected, which could lead to accessing random data. The > fixup should fail then, and this is also patched below. > > No it can't (in theory). The volume would be corrupt if it was. Th

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Linus, Alan, Please do not apply this patch as both the comment and the code are wrong and unnecessary, respectively. Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream kernel instead? Thanks. Rogier and everyone doing any NTFS work, please use -ac series kernels as ntfs

[PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi all, I am studying an NTFS problem, and came across the NTFS fixup mechanism. It took me much too long to understand the fixup mechanism, even though a comment tried to explain it. So I rewrote the comment. Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much larger than e