From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 10:52:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8a044e8-01b0-7008-49ac-7e9c5ce7defd@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a997bb7-7f1c-e8b4-667c-3993f1d82e7c@earthlink.net>
On 04/27/2018 03:26 AM, jdow wrote:
> And before I forget there are two features of the RDBs that I heartily recommend never implementing on Linux. They were good ideas at the time; but, times
> changed. The RDBs are capable of storing a filesystem driver and some drive init code for the plugin disk driver card. That is giving malware authors entirely
> goo easy a shot at owning a machine. Martin S., I would strongly suggest that going forward those two capabilities be removed from the RDB readers in AmigaOS
> as well as Linux OS.
I assume removing the feature for AmigaOS isn't really possible since we don't have
the source code for that, do we?
Also, if I remember correctly, Mac partitions can store filesystem drivers as well
and its actually a feature being used in MacOS. parted received a patch some time
ago to fix the correct handling for storing the filesystem driver in the partition
table.
I would be generally against removing these features as I don't think the security
risk is relevant for the majority of users. The Amiga is a hobbyist machine these
days and AmigaOS has certainly way more on than way to be compromised through
vulnerabilities.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-06 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 15:46 Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-25 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 20:30 ` David Sterba
2018-04-26 2:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-26 10:28 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 10:28 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 10:45 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-04-26 10:45 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-04-26 10:59 ` David Sterba
2018-04-26 11:06 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 0:59 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 7:40 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 7:40 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:46 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:46 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:49 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 21:32 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 21:32 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07 2:15 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07 2:15 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07 2:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 2:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 7:08 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 7:08 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 20:50 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 20:50 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 20:56 ` Ingo Jürgensmann
2018-05-07 20:58 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 8:40 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 8:40 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 10:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 11:00 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 11:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 11:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 23:56 ` Finn Thain
2018-04-26 23:56 ` Finn Thain
2018-04-27 1:43 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-04-27 1:43 ` jdow
2018-04-27 1:26 ` jdow
2018-04-27 1:26 ` jdow
2018-05-06 8:52 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2018-05-06 10:10 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-06 10:10 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 4:54 ` jdow
2018-04-27 2:11 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-04-27 2:11 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-24 9:06 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-24 9:06 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-24 11:33 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-06-24 11:40 ` jdow
2018-06-26 2:23 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 5:17 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26 9:46 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:31 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 9:45 ` jdow
2018-06-27 1:07 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-27 6:24 ` jdow
2018-06-27 8:03 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27 8:03 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 2:57 ` jdow
2018-06-28 7:40 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27 9:00 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28 3:44 ` jdow
2018-06-28 5:43 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28 6:39 ` jdow
2018-06-28 8:16 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 10:00 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB jdow
2018-06-28 11:30 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 11:38 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 12:31 ` jdow
2018-06-28 8:07 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27 7:57 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 2:56 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:02 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26 8:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 9:31 ` jdow
2018-06-25 7:53 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-06-25 8:26 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-25 8:26 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-25 8:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-27 8:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-27 8:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 4:58 ` Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Nikolay Borisov
2018-04-26 5:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-04-26 6:11 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-26 10:36 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-03 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-27 1:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-04-29 12:07 ` Greg KH
2018-04-29 20:07 ` Ondrej Zary
2018-04-29 23:37 ` Greg KH
2018-05-01 10:14 ` Pavel Machek
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