linux-kernel - Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:36:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	Mike Houston <mikeserv@...s.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?



On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
> 
> I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug,
> exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19.
> 
> If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all
> kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days.

The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for 
older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity 
checkingwe did actually seem to fix a long-standing CIFS corruption (and 
apparently reisertfs/XFS problems too).

But the *common* case was actually introduced with 2.6.19, and 2.6.16 
wouldn't be affected. 

			Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/