Maintainers don't scale

Posted Jun 29, 2022 16:22 UTC (Wed) by fratti (guest, #105722)
Parent article: Maintainers don't scale

> In Bacik's opinion, a fuzzed filesystem does not constitute a security bug; "I know I'm probably a heretic for saying that". Filesystems can only be mounted by the root user, he said, but that is often countered with the example of a USB drive; "turn off automount" is his answer for that.

The root user does not have a crystal ball that tells them whether the filesystem they are about to mount will exploit their kernel. I can empathise with the grumpiness of being flooded with security nothingburgers by companies that run automated systems but this claim really is heresy to me.