[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.6.x -- security update fun. (a.k.a. "help!")

[Matthew Miller]

*Great*. Serious security flaws have been discovered in kernels 2.6.10 and
earlier.

And OpenAFS still doesn't work right with kernels newer than 2.6.9 -- oopses
doing directory listings (see my recent posts on openafs-devel for details.)

This means that users of Fedora Core, which attempts to track upstream
packages as closely as possible, have to choose between having an updated
more-secure kernel and disabling OpenAFS. Whether this is a policy which
fits well with new "2.6 isn't really the 'stable' series" scheme is an open
question -- but not one I can do anything about. So I'm trying to make
OpenAFS 1.3.77+ and 2.6.10 work together.

I understand that there's limited resources for OpenAFS development work,
and chasing after Linux kernel changes isn't at the top of the "most
exciting" list, but is anyone else out there working on this? I'm trying to
figure this out as best I can, but I hope someone else is too, because,
frankly, I don't know what I'm doing. :)

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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