Bug#277136: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: vmhgfs eof loops to beginning of file

[Greg Hazel <gah@thalassocracy.org>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Version: 2.6.8-4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software


Vmware's HGFS driver builds and installs into the kernel, but when doing
simple operations like 'cp' from the HGFS filesystem to EXT3 (or
anything, I assume) the file never stops copying, and the result is a
huge file composed of the source file over and over.
Another example is trying to run a perl script, where it never stops
compiling the script and all the global variables throw warnings of
redefinitions on lines that don't exist.
This module worked fine prior to 2.6.8

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.74     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre6-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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