A series of squashfs corruption fixes for the kernel

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LateAdopter
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A series of squashfs corruption fixes for the kernel

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I noticed that the 4.19, 5.4 and 5.10 updates yesterday included a series of fixes related to corruption in squashfs.

From the commit messages, they look like security fixes for maliciously constructed squashfs rather than for defects in handling normal squashfs actions.

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Re: A series of squashfs corruption fixes for the kernel

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Well, I read it as also being 'naive programming' (re: sanity checks) in an unfortunately non-naive world of internet. An ounce of prevention.. as the old saying goes.

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