EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Stable Linux Kernels

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Stable Linux Kernels

As a warning for those who are normally quick to upgrade to the latest stable vanilla kernel releases, a serious EXT4 data corruption bug worked its way into the stable Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel series...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIxNDQ

[darkbasic]

Nice, I'm on 3.6.3 right now -.-

[Lemonzest]

Great on 3.4.15 which got updated a few days ago -.-

[zman0900]

Any word on which versions of 3.4 are bad? I'm on Fedora 16 running 3.4.11 right now and haven't noticed any problems since my last reboot two days ago. I just installed the upgraded kernel 3.6.2 but luckly haven't rebooted to it yet. Thanks for the heads up, guess I'll be removing that update now.

[89c51]

0_o dafuq im on 3.6.2 and rebooted it regurarly yesterday.

And the fucken thing panicked after a reboot today. (but probably this was not related to this bug).

I don't think anything got corrupted though.

[bug77]

Any word on which versions of 3.4 are bad? I'm on Fedora 16 running 3.4.11 right now and haven't noticed any problems since my last reboot two days ago. I just installed the upgraded kernel 3.6.2 but luckly haven't rebooted to it yet. Thanks for the heads up, guess I'll be removing that update now.

F16, installed 3.6.2, rebooted a few times since then. It's all ok for now.

[aorth]

This is probably why, for seemingly no reason at all, my /home partition wouldn't mount yesterday on my desktop; I had to fsck it and fix a bunch of errors. Everything is fine now... phew.

I had done a few reboots applying updates in Arch Linux, which is likely what triggered the bug (article says several reboots in rapid succession could trigger it, due to journal replaying behavior).

[ryao]

I use ZFS with Linux 3.6.2, so I am unaffected.

[AJSB]

TG i'm "still" using 3.6.0


I was to upgrade to 3.6.2 but now will wait for 3.7 anyway....it should be fully fixed by then....

[Chewi]

Can the article be clarified? It seems like some people are going around saying the bug was introduced in 3.6.3 but 3.6.2 is affected too. This work machine I'm on now is running Fedora 17 with 3.6.2. No sign of an update yet.