A set of stable kernels

[Posted November 24, 2020 by ris]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernels 5.9.11, 5.4.80, 4.19.160, 4.14.209, 4.9.246, and 4.4.246 have been released. They all contain important fixes and users should upgrade.

A set of stable kernels

Posted Nov 24, 2020 19:38 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

This contains a fix for the xfs problem I mentioned in the LWN comment on 5.9.9. (It can cause incorrect messages about filesystem corruption in an xfs fs that is actually OK.)

A set of stable kernels

Posted Nov 24, 2020 19:45 UTC (Tue) by am (subscriber, #69042) [Link] (1 responses)

s/messages/panic/

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg47004.html

A set of stable kernels

Posted Nov 25, 2020 14:18 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah that was me :) it wasn't a full-blown panic, I misspoke: it was a corruption readonlyification, but of course since that was my rootfs that left me with not too many options. The next boot instantly panicked because that's what happens when xfs finds an fs corrupted at mount time: it fails to mount, and a failure to mount root is a panic.