From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16AC7C8E1; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 18:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="GAInNRGz" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=sptV1oJo8YsETSI/kLnNx0cSNqyArliacwGxem/egUE=; b=GAInNRGziiw3hd3KnUuXGWgizq 5mZ1Sf3I2ZnndpIGq472L/tbDbFIL7MU2O3jfT4FvBTSnLpFwiC+Ib7HQDVEvoEUjQPQXXb2L57sv Cf6oWxxYRsWqGF61gEQSbxaqrQefR2gdFM89ARZ8OI3+B/X7THqim+NgphcM7+q3F2c2DqqpfSz3B bzmuSQlSiE1t4k7/j66IxmojuJ/KEbzHSQD7VTMKZytBCvkYJBwgdtXmPQ41bsYGYl5T6KZchxRXT cZBvN/91UL21xaACi+05I/6Q22BQYQ3OUP85AnqMRboo7HaCYmwSqb+InwNqKmYi+lRuxp6nS/jus OsOcQvCQ==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rMBs9-003irH-Kh; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:58:17 +0000 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 18:58:17 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: helpdesk@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4 , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: rename ext4 corrupting kernels on kernel.org? Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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?)