From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: arpad.mueller@uni-bonn.de, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] For 5.4 stable exfat: Month timestamp metadata accidentally incremented
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:43:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAFjzvqX1EtpovTP@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6161.1610696299@turing-police>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 02:38:19AM -0500, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> The staging/exfat driver has departed, but a lot of distros are still tracking
> 5.4-stable, so we should fix this.
>
> There was an 0/1 offset error in month handling for file metadata, causing
> the month to get incremented on each reference to the file.
>
> Thanks to Sebastian Gurtler for troubleshooting this, and Arpad Mueller
> for bringing it to my attention.
>
> Relevant discussions:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210997
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1872504
>
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2021-01-15 7:38 [PATCH] For 5.4 stable exfat: Month timestamp metadata accidentally incremented Valdis Klētnieks
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