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Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17


Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden

Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Viacheslav Dubeyko explained in the pull request of the HFS/HFS+ code changes for this merge window: Currently, we have around 221 opened issues in HFS/HFS+ file system drivers. (2) eliminating slab-out-of-bounds issue in hfs_bnode_read() and hfsplus_bnode_read() by checking correctness of offset and length by operation of accessing b-tree node's content;

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