Hi folks. I have what may be an in-kernel CIFS filesystem bug.
It seems that if I open a specific file, I get the contents of a different file back. This may or may not have security implications. Oddly, if I read the file with the same code in CPython 2.x, CPython 3.x or Pypy (recent trunk), I see the error. But if I run exactly the same code on Jython 2.5.x, it works fine. Also, if I reboot, things work OK for a while. And if I umount+mount, that works too. I ran across the issue, because I have a backup program I've been writing for fun, and it saves the same timestamp inside a file, and in its filename. When I assert that the two are the same within some smallish tolerance, the assertion sometimes fails, as described above. Is there a bugtracker somewhere that such an issue should go into? Has this already been fixed in later kernels? I'm on Linux Mint 12, kernel 3.0.0-12-generic. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
