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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2007-07-14 09:03:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2007-07-14 09:03:17 -0400 |
| commit | d2dc78aed43cc5f61e3ae1d5770d1520c415f574 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e4df9b3393f8553e84560cdd1f07b5aa878f1b8 /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | febac23c12287943fb98b4ddc4727e99034d8b64 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-d2dc78aed43cc5f61e3ae1d5770d1520c415f574.tar.gz | |
Update ChangeLog, README, RELEASE-NOTES for 1.40.2 release
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 26 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 32afe2e9..b3a605c6 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,26 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007) +================================ + +A recent change to e2fsck_add_dir_info() to use tdb files to check +filesystems with a very large number of filesystems had a typo which +caused us to resize the wrong data structure. This would cause a +array overrun leading to malloc pointer corruptions and segfaults. +Since we normally can very accurately predict how big the the dirinfo +array needs to be, this bug only got triggered on very badly corrupted +filesystems. + +Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly salvange +directories when the last entry's rec_len is bogusly too big. This +resulted in a nonsense filesystem corruption to be reported, and +required a second run of e2fsck to fully fix up the directory. + +Update tune2fs man page to include more discussion of reserved blocks +(Addresses Launchpad bug #47817) + +Update Turkish, Polish, Dutch, and Vietnamese PO files from the +Translation Project + + E2fsprogs 1.40.1 (July 7, 2007) =============================== @@ -11,7 +34,7 @@ of "E@e '%Dn' in %p (%i)" to "E@E". This causes @E to be expanded at @E, recursively, forever, until the stack fills up and e2fsck core dumps. We fix this by making e2fsck stop @-expansions after a recursive depth of 10, which is far more than we need. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: @1646081) +(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1646081) Compile the default mke2fs.conf into mke2fs program. People are getting surprised by mke2fs creating filesystems with different @@ -33,7 +56,6 @@ Fix bogus strip permission errors when building under Debian. When building the e2fsprogs dpkg's, the dh_strip command emits a large number of error messages caused by the permissions not being right. So run dh_fixperms before running dh_strip. - Programmer's Notes: ------------------- |