{"id":1211921,"date":"2023-12-09T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211921"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:55:31","slug":"ext4-data-corruption-in-stable-kernels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211921","title":{"rendered":"Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problem in multiple stable kernel releases that is causing data corruption in ext4 filesystems.  It is <a href=\"https:\/\/lore.kernel.org\/stable\/20231205122122.dfhhoaswsfscuhc3@quack3\/\">caused<\/a> by a problematic commit that is in multiple stable kernels:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\nThe commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels that have<br \/>\n91562895f803 (&#8220;ext4: properly sync file size update after O_SYNC direct<br \/>\nIO&#8221;) before 6.5 are corrupting data &#8211; I&#8217;ve noticed at least 6.1 is still<br \/>\ncarrying the problematic commit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMore information can be found in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843\">Debian bug report<\/a>. It has also <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/954284\/\">delayed the release of Debian 12.3 images<\/a>. &#8220;<q>Please do not upgrade any systems at this time, we urge caution for users<br \/>\nwith UnattendeUpgrades configured.<\/q>&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Thanks to Alex Ridevski for giving us a heads up on this.)&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/954285\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problem in multiple stable kernel releases that is causing data corruption in ext4 filesystems. It is caused by a problematic commit that is in multiple stable kernels: The commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1211921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}