Re: Mounting corrupted HFS+ causes kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Ernesto A. FernÃndez
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 22:38:14 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 03:45:43PM -0300, Ernesto A. FernÃndez wrote:
> Hi again:
>
> A patch for your original report has already been added to the -mm tree.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:43:26PM +0300, Anatoly Trosinenko wrote:
> > Now, when mounting the attached hfsplus_16mb_segv to /mnt and
> > performing `dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/xyz bs=567879 count=1` I get
> >
> > [ 1.646451] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> > at 0000000000000043
>
> I just sent you a patch for this second report. It's really simple, so
> it would be great if you could take a look at it and review it yourself.
> Otherwise it's not very likely to get picked up.

Never mind, it got picked up already.

>
> Thanks,
> Ernest