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Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs [message #6139 is a reply to message #6119]

Fri, 08 September 2006 15:49

Dave Jones
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2006

Junior Member

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >
> > I even checked the email myself and the only difference between "good"
> > patches and mine is that mine has "format=flowed" in
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> >
> > It looks like some mailers replace TABs with spaces when format=flowed
> > is specified. So are you sure that the problem is in mozilla?
>
> Hey, what do you know? Good call. I can actually just "S"ave the message
> to a file, and it is a perfectly fine patch. But when I view it in my mail
> reader, your "format=flowed" means that it _shows_ it as being corrupted
> (ie word wrapping and missing spaces at the beginning of lines).
>
> Will apply, thanks. It would be better if your mailer didn't lie about the
> format though (treating the text as "flowed" definitely isn't right, and
> some mail gateways might actually find it meaningful, for all I know).

I got bitten by this myself a while ago. Since then I added this
hack to my .procmailrc

:0fw
| /usr/bin/perl -pe 's/^(Content-Type: .*)format=flowed/\1format=flawed/'

now I see patches as they were intended..

Dave

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		[PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Kirill Korotaev on Mon, 04 September 2006 12:14
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Kyle McMartin on Tue, 05 September 2006 11:39
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: dev on Tue, 05 September 2006 13:06
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Linus Torvalds on Wed, 06 September 2006 18:24
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Matthew Wilcox on Wed, 06 September 2006 18:27
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Arjan van de Ven on Wed, 06 September 2006 19:06
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Jes Sorensen on Fri, 08 September 2006 09:12
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Kirill Korotaev on Thu, 07 September 2006 10:14
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Linus Torvalds on Thu, 07 September 2006 15:17
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Willy Tarreau on Thu, 07 September 2006 20:07
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Andrew Morton on Thu, 07 September 2006 23:42
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Willy Tarreau on Fri, 08 September 2006 04:34
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: dev on Fri, 08 September 2006 15:12
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Linus Torvalds on Fri, 08 September 2006 15:35
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: dev on Fri, 08 September 2006 16:06
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: rdunlap on Wed, 13 September 2006 15:45
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Dave Jones on Fri, 08 September 2006 15:49
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: Linus Torvalds on Wed, 06 September 2006 20:20
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: fernando on Wed, 06 September 2006 23:23
		Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs By: tony.luck on Wed, 06 September 2006 21:27

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