On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:23 +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across something odd this morning on a Sarge production server I > manage remotely. The machine runs a self-compiled 2.6.12.2 kernel and I > keep it up to date with security fixes. (I run upgrades and > dist-upgrades when I get email from debian-security-announce). > > The box is an HP/Compaq somethingorother server with the following > controller: > > 0000:04:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart > Array 64xx (rev 01). The filesystem is ext3 on 2x160GB hardware RAID1. > The box has 3 GB ECC RAM. None of the hardware reports any failure of > any kind. > > The weird this is that there are six files in / that should not be > there. 'ls -l' gives me: > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-08-17 23:08 ? > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-08-18 23:08 ? > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-09-06 23:13 ? > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-08-17 23:08 ??? > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-08-18 23:08 ??? > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-09-06 23:13 ??? > > Not useful. > > I wrote a little C app that runs readdir() on / and gives me all the > filenames as strings and a char[] cast into int. With an utf8 console I > get the filenames as a series of squares now, but what I find more > interesting is that when I print off the integer values of each of the > chars in the filenames, I get this: > > dir='/', file='', char[] = -10,-73,-128 > dir='/', file='?', char[] = -10,-73,-80,-110,25,8 > dir='/', file='', char[] = -14,-73,-128 > dir='/', file='', char[] = -14,-73,-80,-110,25,8 > dir='/', file='', char[] = -16,-73,-128 > dir='/', file='', char[] = -16,-73,-80,-110,25,8 > > ... negative numbers? (The strings won't paste properly).
Perhaps you should be using unsigned integers. That might make a little more sense since I think that character systems generally work with positive integers. If these are supposed to be unicode characters, or anything else that's not _supposed_ to be understood in signed 8 bit chunks, it's quite likely that you would have integer overflows resulting in negative numbers. a simple shell script might make inspection of the files/filenames a little easier. something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test$ ls -l total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 10 2005-09-19 21:28 ?? -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 31 2005-09-19 21:30 ??? -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 8 2005-09-19 21:30 ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test$ /bin/ls * | while read f ; do echo 'filename:'; echo $f |hd -o; echo 'file contents:'; cat $f |hd; echo '-----------------'; done filename: 00000000 01 02 0a |...| 0000000 001001 000012 0000003 file contents: 00000000 62 6c 61 68 20 62 6c 61 68 0a |blah blah.| 0000000a ----------------- filename: 00000000 04 05 06 0a |....| 0000000 002404 005006 0000004 file contents: 00000000 61 6c 6c 20 79 6f 75 72 20 62 61 73 65 20 61 72 |all your base ar| 00000010 65 20 62 65 6c 6f 6e 67 20 74 6f 20 75 73 0a |e belong to us.| 0000001f ----------------- filename: 00000000 07 08 0a |...| 0000000 004007 000012 0000003 file contents: 00000000 66 6f 6f 20 62 61 72 0a |foo bar.| 00000008 ----------------- dunno if that was helpful. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg
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