> What I'm concerned about is that your patch may not be complete. There are > more similar "checks" in ktar.cpp. As I absolutely have no idea how tar works, > this will take time to handle properly (or hopefully upstream responds in the > meantime). Thanks for forwarding the bug.
Can you point to some of those checks? I've looked through the code again and found nothing related to QString. There are only some of them related to QByteArray.