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

[Sean Thomas Caron <scaron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

Yeah, thanks; we've been pointed in the direction of using 3.0-train  
instead, and I'm moving ahead with building 3.0.23. I just didn't see  
any clear guidance on kernel.org so I thought I'd ask about the best  
way to move forward.
Best,

-Sean

Quoting 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