Re: SEVERE Problems in 2.5.12 at uid0 access

From: system_lists@nullzone.org
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 13:57:13 EST


Thanks to all (Viro, Skip, Bob and Pierre).

At 14:18 01/05/2002 -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

>On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bob_Tracy wrote:
>
> > Confirmed on a 2.5.11 system as well. Talk about your basic heart
> > attack! I'd just installed Postfix and found that I couldn't access
> > any of the directories under /var/spool/postfix. Fortunately (?),
> > I've got older kernels to fall back on, and that's one of the hazards
> > of running on the bleeding edge I reckon.
> >
> > Oh yeah... ext2 filesystem. I think this bug is at least mostly
> > independent of the filesystem type.
>
>Yes, it is. Look for the patch I've posted yesterday (subject was
>something like "[PATCH] missing checks", IIRC).

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