2024-01-06 17:55:07

by Alexey Dobriyan

Subject: rename ext4 corrupting kernels on kernel.org?

I remember 2.4.11 was fs corrupting and official tarballs were renamed:
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.11-dontuse.tar.bz2

I'm not ext4 guy but which versions were affected recently?

This comment mentions "6.1.64 and 6.1.65": https://lwn.net/Articles/954321/

2024-01-06 18:58:32

by Matthew Wilcox

Subject: Re: rename ext4 corrupting kernels on kernel.org?

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 08:54:35PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I remember 2.4.11 was fs corrupting and official tarballs were renamed:
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.11-dontuse.tar.bz2
>
> I'm not ext4 guy but which versions were affected recently?
>
> This comment mentions "6.1.64 and 6.1.65": https://lwn.net/Articles/954321/

That would seem like an overreaction. You've got to do some pretty rare
actions to corrupt your filesystem (iirc it was O_SYNC, O_DIRECT writes
that extend the file?)