From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Spelvin" Subject: Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock Date: 31 Oct 2012 21:05:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20121101010521.893.qmail@science.horizon.com> References: <20121008024126.GC468@thunk.org> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tm@tao.ma To: darrick.wong@oracle.com, linux@horizon.com, tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Received: from science.horizon.com ([71.41.210.146]:25108 "HELO science.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755584Ab2KABFX (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:05:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20121008024126.GC468@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm currently running with two ext4 patches: Author: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sun Oct 7 22:18:56 2012 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock Author: Darrick J. Wong Date: Wed Oct 17 12:51:30 2012 -0700 Subject: ext4: Don't verify checksums of dx non-leaf nodes during fallback linear scan They appear to fix real problems. I notice, that neither of these have made it into 2.6.5. Should they be sent to -stable at some point? I'm not trying to overrule your judgements on the matter, just ensure that the omission is actually a conscious decision rather than an oversight.