Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

Posted Dec 11, 2023 11:42 UTC (Mon) by csigler (subscriber, #1224)
In reply to: Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels by vbabka
Parent article: Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

Well, this morning I decided to stop being lazy and investigate:

- At first scary; commit 91562895f803 was applied to 6.6.3 -- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.6.3 -- but there is no commit 936e114a245b6

- Sigh of relief; commit 936e114a245b6 was previously applied to 6.5 -- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.5

So if you or your distro follows stable (like I do with Arch :) you never had commit 91562895f803 _without_ 936e114a245b6. Move along, nothing to see here ;D

Clemmitt

Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

Posted Dec 11, 2023 13:29 UTC (Mon) by saffroy (guest, #43999) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you making fun of people running LTS kernels, or just not aware of LTS kernels?

Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels

Posted Dec 11, 2023 17:02 UTC (Mon) by csigler (subscriber, #1224) [Link]

Neither. I have the Arch LTS kernel pkg installed in case the latest current has "issues." So I could easily have been bitten by this. Losing data is never something to joke about, kindly or hatefully.

I think I was just relieved that the current stable kernel which I run has not been affected!