Hi, On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:27:19AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > Note: AFAIK Andreas' kernel patch has never been applied :-( In fact it has been, fortunately, just about two weeks ago... By Andreas Kies in 2.4.26-pre3. He'd already patched 2.6.x a bit earlier. I've been trying to get the slightest bit of attention about that DoS at that time, but after two very detailed fruitless mails to LKML, I just gave up: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.0/0087.html http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.2/0033.html Andreas Kies told me that it seemed that they now cared a slight wee bit more about small fringe problems such as DoSes in 2.4.x... </sarcasm>
> (now you know how to mount a DOS on these systems!) Ow, watch your words! This can be VERY easily misinterpreted as mounting a DOS partition somewhere!? (in fact I did fall for it the first couple of seconds) > Patch the fragment size if it does not match the current sound > format. This saves us from trigerring a kernel freeze on some OSS 2.4 + > SounBlaster 16 systems. Crap, I thought I'd sent a Wine patch at that time; it would have been the easiest thing to do. Anyway, glad to see it fixed now. Greetings, Andi (been finishing my wireless driver any single day for about 5 months now :))