Safe to use XFS in production in Linux 3.2.9?

[Greg Freemyer]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Sean Thomas Caron <scaron at umich.edu> 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
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