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

[Kris Van Hees]

I am :)

	Kris

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:19:30AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> *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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