From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC14138010 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4725021C01A; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:30:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB305E0665 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com ([209.85.160.53]:47939) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TRaaX-002ByF-FW for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:28:01 +0700 Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id wz12so2345309pbc.40 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.235.71 with SMTP id uk7mr66219219pbc.10.1351221981171; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.232.41 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.232.41 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50899CA9.5090104@gmail.com> References: <50889166.2000102@fastmail.co.uk> <5088A945.5020405@fastmail.co.uk> <50899CA9.5090104@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:26:20 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b33d1a63351f304ccede2c4 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: ae175c7b-b690-47e1-a6e8-db169ee775ee X-Archives-Hash: 3a90b9838bebe6a64cb8038502e04a59 --047d7b33d1a63351f304ccede2c4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Oct 26, 2012 3:14 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> > >> > >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/ >> > >> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said. >> > >> > -- >> > :wq >> >> Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not been proven and he himself is back in the dark. >> >> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs? ;-) >> >> Rgds, >> -- > > > > Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just use it for a while. They will fix it pretty soon I'm sure. > Unfortunately, since Ted T'so himself couldn't even pinpoint what's wrong, how can I be sure that other kernel versions are unaffected? Rgds, -- --047d7b33d1a63351f304ccede2c4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Oct 26, 2012 3:14 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Pandu Poluan wrote:
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>> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > http://lwn.net/Ar= ticles/521022/
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>> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said.<= br> >> >
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>> > :wq
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>> Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a lin= k to Theo T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypot= hesis had not been proven and he himself is back in the dark.
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>> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to rei= serfs? ;-)
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>> Rgds,
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> Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if t= he kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just u= se it for a while.=C2=A0 They will fix it pretty soon I'm sure.=C2=A0 <= br> >

Unfortunately, since Ted T'so himself couldn't even pinpoint wha= t's wrong, how can I be sure that other kernel versions are unaffected?=

Rgds,
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