Gamall
January 8, 2024, 3:02am
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… and sometimes, LTS has issues that do not occur in the mainline, because they are backporting patches at breakneck speeds, and sometimes they do so out of order:
There was such an issue recently:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843
There is a problem in multiple stable kernel releases that is causing data corruption in ext4 filesystems. It is caused by a problematic commit that is in multiple stable kernels:
The commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels that have 91562895f803 (“ext4: properly sync file size update after O_SYNC direct IO”) before 6.5 are corrupting data - I’ve noticed at least 6.1 is still carrying the problematic commit.
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