Re: Safe to use XFS in production in Linux 3.2.9?

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Sean Thomas Caron <scaron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

We're currently using Linux 3.0.12 with Cristoph's xfs-bulletproof-sync patch and it seems to be working very well for us. Unfortunately this kernel is vulnerable to the recent CVE-2012-0056 no permission checking on writes to /proc/(pid)/mem local root exploit, so we've got to leave it behind.

I see that the newest recommended stable kernel on kernel.org is 3.2.9.

Sean,

You do appreciate 3.0 has been designated a long-term kernel by the kernel.org team and will get kernel.org support for 2 years.  3.2 is not a long-term kernel, so support drops from kernel.org more or less when 3.3 comes out.

3.2 support will come from the distributors of course, but I don't know if any of the major releases are based on 3.2.

Greg