linux-ext4 - Re: rename ext4 corrupting kernels on kernel.org?

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Message-ID: <ZZmiyTedKJJVuMot@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 18:58:17 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc: helpdesk@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: rename ext4 corrupting kernels on kernel.org?

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?)