Re: Ext4 corruption in some stable kernels

[Hilton Chain]

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:35:30 +0800,
Hilton Chain wrote:
>
> Hi Felix (and Leo, Cc-ed)
>
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 11:00:47 +0800,
> Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's possible Guix never shipped the affected "stable" kernels, but a brief
> > pointer seemed appropriate. For details, please see here. [1]
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Felix
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20231205122122.dfhhoaswsfscuhc3@quack3/
> >
>
> From the linked thread and report in Debian[1], 6.1.64 (and maybe 5.10.202 +
> 5.15.140) are affected.  Unfortunately we have shipped them for about 1 week.
>
> Leo has sent #67724 yesterday to update kernels, maybe we can merge updates
> for these three versions quicker?
>
> Thanks
> ---
> [1]: https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1702150551.html


Based on the commit log and [1], the offending commit was not actually included
in 5.10.y and 5.15.y releases.

And according to [2], a fix has benn added[3] to v6.1.66, so only v6.1.64 and
v6.1.65 are affected.


Thanks
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[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2023112502-supernova-copier-7615@gregkh/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2023120643-evade-legal-ee74@gregkh/
[3]: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.1.66&id=ea574927fc0bc343016ea3337fcfc0b3fb26fe08