Re: [Bug Report] OOB-read BUG in HFS+ filesystem

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:18:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:45:25PM +0800, now4yreal wrote:
> > Dear Linux Security Maintainers,
> > I would like to report a OOB-read vulnerability in the HFS+ file
> > system, which I discovered using our in-house developed kernel fuzzer,
> > Symsyz.
> 
> Bug reports from non-official syzbot instances are generally not
> accepted.
> 
> hfs and hfsplus are orphaned filesystems since at least 2014. Bug
> reports for such filesystems won't receive much attention from the core
> maintainers.
> 
> I'm very very close to putting them on the chopping block as they're
> slowly turning into pointless burdens.

I've tried asking some people who are long term Apple & Linux people,
but haven't been able to find anyone interested in becoming maintainer.
Let's drop both hfs & hfsplus.  Ten years of being unmaintained is
long enough.