Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 01:01:07 EST




On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> It would be interesting to know what the inode numbers are in the image; also,
> what is the exact behaviour -- do you end up with a missing link, or do both
> entries end up getting hard-linked to an empty file?

Judging by the

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

one or more of the hardlinked binaries (modprobe being one, but not
necessarily the one that initially triggers hits) will read all zeroes-

Or at least bytes at offsets 2 and 3 will read as zero, causing it to not
be recognized as a proper binary, causing that "binfmt-0000" thing.

Linus
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