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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 22:09:05)
Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat

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...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FAT
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