Safe to use XFS in production in Linux 3.2.9?
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Fri Mar 9 10:45:33 CST 2012
Sean,
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Sean Thomas Caron wrote:
> OK, Linux 3.2.9 doesn't sound very safe to use in production. So, fine,
> we can try 3.0.23; it appears that a fix for CVE-2012-0056 was applied
> around 3.0.19 so it should be all set in that regard.
>
> I'm comparing the contents of the xfs-bulletproof-sync patch with the
> 3.0.23 XFS sources and it's not entirely clear to me if 3.0.23 fully
> implements the fixes in the patch. Please forgive me because it's a
> little long, but here's the contents of the patch:
Looks like this fix made 3.0.16:
# git describe 6826d3e80d143ca7411fd2dca05bc57c7ed3e620
v3.0.15-68-g6826d3e
-Ben
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