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Re: Uploading linux (3.16.7-ckt11-1)



On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 13:19 +0200, Florian Will wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> > If there are any fixes available for important or higher severity bugs
> > that I've missed, please let me know
> 
> I'm not sure where to find the fixes already included with the package
> you plan to upload soon, but there is one important fix missing
> according to the changelog you included with your mail. AIUI, the data
> corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents is a different issue.
> 
> 3.16.7-ckt11, like many other recent stable kernel updates, includes the
> patch
> "md/raid0: fix bug with chunksize not a power of 2."
> which causes wrong files to be TRIMmed when enabling discard or running
> fstrim on a raid0 setup. That is, random files are suddenly filled with
> zeroes instead of their original content when deleting files from the
> file system.
> 
> This has already caused severe data loss on various Arch systems, and
> probably Fedora too. Ubuntu have reverted that patch for their -ckt11
> upload to utopic. There is now a patch fixing the regression in Linus'
> tree, but not in -ckt11.
[...]

I have applied that patch but didn't mention it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

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