ntfs kernel module

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Tue Oct 26 20:52:25 UTC 2004


On 26 Oct 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2004, Alexandre Strube <surak at casa.surak.eti.br> wrote:
> > The ntfs module used in other distributions is mainly read-only... how
> > can this corrupt a file system?
> All it takes is a bit of incorrect memory management in the kernel.
> As soon as you corrupt kernel data structures, all bets are off.  Say,
> double-free of a pointer to an ntfs read-only buffer could corrupt
> whatever data structure that buffer was being reused for after the
> first free.

afaik ntfs-readonly no longer has any memory corruption issues. indeed the 
bugzilla entries indicate corruption is no longer an issue.

-Dan




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