Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

Posted Dec 10, 2023 13:39 UTC (Sun) by dharding (subscriber, #6509)
In reply to: Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels by mb
Parent article: Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

> There should never be such a dependency that corrupts filesystems.
> That is very dangerous for git-bisect.

This is true, but in this case there was not a dependency issue in Linus' tree. The problematic commit (91562895f803) that was backported from the 6.7 series to the stable kernels depended on another commit (936e114a245b6) from the 6.5 series that wasn't backported, which is why the corruption only affects stable kernels containing 91562895f803.