Safe to use XFS in production in Linux 3.2.9?

[Sean Thomas Caron]

Hi Ben,

Thank you for the confirmation! We'll move ahead with 3.0.23, then

Best,

-Sean

Quoting Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>:

> 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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>