LWN: Comments on "A new crop of stable kernels"

A new crop of stable kernels

bojan — Mon, 20 May 2019 22:33:08 +0000

There are numerous patches for ext4 that landed across stable versions. Do you know what specifically is dangerous in 5.1.3?

NightMonkey — Sat, 18 May 2019 22:13:38 +0000

Thanks for this warning.

hmh — Sat, 18 May 2019 13:37:07 +0000

Users of ext4 should avoid 5.1.x until 5.1.4 is released, though. Alternatively get the ext4 patches that are queued for 5.1.4.