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Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:53

It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now lacking an upper-bounds check on the length of the filename, which could lead to some unexpected situations with extremely long filenames...