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Re: Kernel 'developer' makes fuzzy FUD (RH Episodes: Volume 1)
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb () redhat com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:12:51 -0500
On Sunday 12 November 2006 13:14, L.M.H wrote:
On the crediting part... hmm, mind if I ask you who approached you with filesystem issues back in March?
OK, let's clear the air on this. You did. The whole story is in the README file of http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.6.tar.gz.
BTW, how's that in every mention from Red Hat (as in employees, including yourself) about fsfuzzer, it appears as you're the only one, first and original, developer of fsfuzzer?
Simple mistake and that's all. In the reply to Gadi, I mentioned that I updated the program and tested against a current kernel and found real problems. I wrote the code so that other people could troubleshoot/fix the problem and gave it to them. When they posted the patch to lkml, They were excited about this new tool and assumed I wrote the whole thing. I had figured that we would have done a proper study of file system problems, fix them, & release a paper. The accidental disclosure of the program without a proper release kinda messed it all up. In pure lines of code currently being distributed, I wrote most of it. In terms of the uniqueness of the idea, the basic technique it uses, and taking it to other OSes, its all your work. Bravo...seriously.
And I would like to know about your comment on that bugzilla entry begging for the bug to be fixed 'before the month of kernel bugs starts (nov. 1)'.
Real simple. We had a verified fix and it needed to get out to all Linux distributions. The responsible thing to do is to fix the problem, get the patch to people, and then talk about it. I felt like you wanted to skip to the part where its discussed without people having a fix as payback for accident disclosure of the program. -Steve _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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