linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock

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Message-ID: <20121101011312.GG19591@blackbox.djwong.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:13:12 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tm@....ma
Subject: Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:05:21PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> I'm currently running with two ext4 patches:
> 
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Date: Sun Oct 7 22:18:56 2012 -0400
> Subject: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock
> 
> Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> 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.

<shrug> I was wondering too, but I figured Ted was probably busy dealing with
the corruption bug and such.

(Which itself doesn't seem to be in 3.6.x yet)

I suppose it's a good sign that it's been more than a week and you haven't hit
anything else...

--D

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