kern/60313: data destruction: lseek() misalignment silently ignored by some block devices

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:18:01 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> 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.

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