Bug 129735

Summary: bug in included JFS version
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Thomas Uebermeier <uthomas>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kiersten (Kerri) Anderson <kanderso>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: barryn, bjohnson, petrides, riel, tburke
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Description Thomas Uebermeier 2004-08-12 10:16:54 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux 
2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp) (KHTML, like Gecko) 
 
Description of problem: 
Although JFS is unsupported with RHEL the current version has 
a stack overrun in dtSearch. 
IBM has released V1.1.7 with a bugfix, this should be considered 
for inclusion into the kernel. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL 
 
How reproducible: 
Didn't try 
 
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Actual Results: 
kernel: stack overrun in dtSearch!  
kernel: jfs_lookup: dtSearch returned 5 
 
Additional info: 
 
IBM sees this bug as "critical" and as "should update" on big-endian 
systems.