From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
now4yreal <now4yreal@foxmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Stone <leocstone@gmail.com>, Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug Report] OOB-read BUG in HFS+ filesystem
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250414162328.GD16750@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z_0aBN-20w20-UiD@casper.infradead.org>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:18:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:45:25PM +0800, now4yreal wrote:
> > > Dear Linux Security Maintainers,
> > > I would like to report a OOB-read vulnerability in the HFS+ file
> > > system, which I discovered using our in-house developed kernel fuzzer,
> > > Symsyz.
> >
> > Bug reports from non-official syzbot instances are generally not
> > accepted.
> >
> > hfs and hfsplus are orphaned filesystems since at least 2014. Bug
> > reports for such filesystems won't receive much attention from the core
> > maintainers.
> >
> > I'm very very close to putting them on the chopping block as they're
> > slowly turning into pointless burdens.
>
> I've tried asking some people who are long term Apple & Linux people,
> but haven't been able to find anyone interested in becoming maintainer.
> Let's drop both hfs & hfsplus. Ten years of being unmaintained is
> long enough.
Agreed. If needed there are FUSE implementations to access .dmg files
with HFS/HFS+ or other standalone tools.
https://github.com/0x09/hfsfuse
https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-dmg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-14 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-14 13:45 =?gb18030?B?bm93NHlyZWFs?=
2025-04-14 14:18 ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-14 14:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-14 16:23 ` David Sterba [this message]
2025-04-15 7:52 ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-15 9:16 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2025-04-15 9:31 ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-15 10:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2025-04-15 11:25 ` Christian Brauner
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