Hi, maybe somewhat off topic, but i don't know where else to ask for advise:
While doing regression tests with my readily prepared packages (*), i stumbled over a bug in fs/isofs/rock.c which truncates filenames of length 254 or 255 to quite random lengths and thus can let readdir(3) emit multiple identical names in the same directory. I can reproduce. I see the buggy constant "254" in line 270 of https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/isofs/rock.c as well as in my Sid's /usr/src/linux-source-4.1/fs/isofs/rock.c. I see a coarse reaction which leads to the really bad behavior in userland. What to do now with this knowledge ? Does Debian have a kernel department ? With round tuits ? (On LKML they will at best urge me to fix it myself. But i have my own alternative ready in userland. And my kernel skills stem from a short adventure in NetBSD's ISO 9660 driver. This constant "254" might have a good reason. Who can tell ?) (*) I found two sponsor candidates. Now i am waiting whether the packages will get de-orphaned or re-parented. Thanks again for this list's support. Have a nice day :) Thomas
