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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