Re: possible viri in tarballs?

From: Roger Heflin
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 15:09:23 EST


Gene,

How big is the file you have? Here is what I have, and this is
from several different kernels.

wc gadget_multi.txt
150 830 5482 gadget_multi.tx

cksum gadget_multi.txt
3973522114 5482 gadget_multi.txt

ls -l gadget_multi.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5482 Dec 20 09:51 gadget_multi.txt

If you size/cksum is different something modified your file


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >/home/gene/src/linux-3.2.40/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt:
>> >MBL_400944.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
>>
>> You will see more history.
>>
>> So that file needs sanitized. I was under the impression that a file with
>> the .txt extension was supposed to be pure ascii text, but its loaded to
>> the gills with some sort of markup crap. And I have at least 20 copies of
>> it.
>
> Huh? There are lines with
>
> * Overview
>
> ...
>
> ** Linux host drivers
>
> ...
>
> in that file, sure. But I'd hardly call that "loaded to the gills
> with markup crap".
>
> If the file was had any amount of XML or XHTML2, that would be markup
> crap. But some Twiki style ascii markup is hardly a problem -- it
> looks just fine when viewed in a text reader.
>
> - Ted
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