Re: Warning and BUG with btrfs and corrupted image

From: Chris Mason
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 21:13:59 EST


On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:43 +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Chris Mason (chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when mounting an intentionally corrupted btrfs filesystem i get the
> > > following warning and bug message. The image can be found here
> > > www.cccmz.de/~snakebyte/btrfs.2.img.bck.bz2
> >
> > Thanks for looking at things
> >
> > Aside from catching checksumming errors, we're not quite ready for
> > fuzzer style attacks. The code will be hardened for this but it isn't
> > yet.
>
> Does this mean i should stop trying to break it for now or are you interested
> in further reports?

For now, you'll be able to break it at will ;) We'll send out a please
send us corrupt notice release announcement when we've hardened things.

-chris


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