From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 18:39:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F39516A41F for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:39:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A1D43D60 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:39:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5E9D2.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.233.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k08IYGdr036888; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:34:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k08Id1fx071197; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:39:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:39:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Matthias Andree Message-ID: <20060108193900.4e1194ba@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20060108181801.GA14246@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <200601081640.k08GeZGc083176@freefall.freebsd.org> <20060108181801.GA14246@merlin.emma.line.org> Organization: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/60313: data destruction: lseek() misalignment silently ignored by some block devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:39:16 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:18:01 +0100 Matthias Andree wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jan 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: netchild > > State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 8 16:39:04 UTC 2006 > > State-Changed-Why: > > 5.x and 6.x come with GEOM, where -- according to phk -- this is > > handled correctly. > > Well, it appears fixed in 6-STABLE (I doesn't matter if write refuses or > lseek, as long as no harm is done to the device), but how about FreeBSD 4? RELENG_4_* will only see security or errata fixes, there will be no 4.12-release. So feel free to point out a security hole to the security team. Alternatively feel free to point out to the release engineering team how this bug is a major service-disrupting bug (e.g. by a huge amount of corresponding bug reports) as requested by by the errata policy (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/errata_policy.html). Bye, Alexander. -- Loose bits sink chips. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 WL http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/registry/1FZ4DTHQE9PQ8/ref=wl_em_to/