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Subject: Re: 8.20 release plan?
From: Jim Meyering <jim () meyering ! net>
Date: 2012-10-17 16:19:56
Message-ID: 87k3upkr4j.fsf () rho ! meyering ! net
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Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 03:07 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hi Pádraig,
>>
>> Would you please review this?
>>
>> [ cp: avoid data-corrupting free-memory-read ]
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/25139/focus=25151
>
> Thanks for handling this.
> The fix looks good, and I can't see any other references
> to the realloc'd memory that need to be updated.
> That code is only enabled for sparse files at present
> so maybe the NEWS might be adjusted slightly like:
>
> cp could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies.
> This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file,
> on GNU/Linux file systems supporting fiemap extent scanning.
> [bug introduced in coreutils-8.11]
Thanks. I prefer that, too. Amended and pushed,
along with a commit to update to the latest gnulib.
>> That bug is obviously serious and the fix merits a prompt release.
>>
>> What would you or anyone else like to see committed before the release?
>> Ondrej's df patch is overdue, but I haven't reviewed it, and now wonder
>> if it'd be better to defer it until after 8.20. Without reviewing it,
>> however, I'm not well placed to estimate its risk/benefit ratio.
>
> We've 8 fixes now queued up, including this serious one.
> So I agree we should do a new release with what we have.
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=aff5bf1
>
> I'm travelling at present, so I'll look at doing a release on Monday.
Sounds good. Thank you.
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