Re: Mounting corrupted HFS+ causes kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Ernesto A. FernÃndez
Date: Sun Jun 03 2018 - 14:50:09 EST


Hi, thank you for your report.

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 06:52:19PM +0300, Anatoly Trosinenko wrote:
> How to reproduce:
> 1. Take kernel source v4.17-rc7
> 2. Compile it with the config attached
> 3. Unpack and mount the attached FS image as hfsplus.

We are aware of this issue and I've sent some patches [1][2]. It's hard
to get reviewers interested in hfsplus, so I don't know when it will be
fixed.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg125241.html
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg126499.html