Re: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues

Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-07T13:17:32Z

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:47 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> Arnd has found via bisecting gcc:
>
> 7e8c2bd54af ("[AArch64] fix unsafe access to deallocated stack")
>
> which seems to be https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63293
>
> That seems to suggest that gcc-5.0.0 is also affected.
>
> Looking at the changelog in Debian's gcc-8.3 packages, this doesn't
> feature, so it's not easy just to look at the changelogs to work out
> which versions are affected.

I checked the history to confirm that all gcc-5 releases (5.0.x is pre-release)
and later have the fix.

The gcc bugzilla mentions backports into gcc-linaro, but I do not see
them in my git history.

Arnd