On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 09:16:58AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On 15.04.25 09:52, Christian Brauner wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 06:23:28PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:18:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:45:25PM +0800, now4yreal wrote: > >>>>> Dear Linux Security Maintainers, > >>>>> I would like to report a OOB-read vulnerability in the HFS+ file > >>>>> system, which I discovered using our in-house developed kernel fuzzer, > >>>>> Symsyz. > >>>> > >>>> Bug reports from non-official syzbot instances are generally not > >>>> accepted. > >>>> > >>>> hfs and hfsplus are orphaned filesystems since at least 2014. Bug > >>>> reports for such filesystems won't receive much attention from the core > >>>> maintainers. > >>>> > >>>> I'm very very close to putting them on the chopping block as they're > >>>> slowly turning into pointless burdens. > >>> > >>> I've tried asking some people who are long term Apple & Linux people, > >>> but haven't been able to find anyone interested in becoming maintainer. > >>> Let's drop both hfs & hfsplus. Ten years of being unmaintained is > >>> long enough. > >> > >> Agreed. If needed there are FUSE implementations to access .dmg files > >> with HFS/HFS+ or other standalone tools. > >> > >> https://github.com/0x09/hfsfuse > >> https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-dmg > > > > Ok, I'm open to trying. I'm adding a deprecation message when initating > > a new hfs{plus} context logged to dmesg and then we can try and remove > > it by the end of the year. > > > > > > Just a word of caution though, (at least Intel) Macs have their EFI ESP > partition on HFS+ instead of FAT. I don't own an Apple Silicon Mac so I > can't check if it's there as well. Yeah, someone mentioned that. Well, then we hopefully have someone stepping up to for maintainership.
