Verifier fixes backported to stable kernels?

[Eric Sandeen]

On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Fanael Linithien <fanael4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2014-08-09 2:54 GMT+02:00 Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>:
>> What fixes are you talking about? List of commits, please, noting
>> whether the commit already has a "cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>" in
>> it or not.
> 
> These are the commits:
> 
> 400b9d88757c0bfbdfa97014e090ec40a31c1282
> 67dc288c21064b31a98a53dc64f6b9714b819fd6 (this is the only one with the cc)
> 5fd364fee81a7888af806e42ed8a91c845894f2d
> ad3714b82c631a34724da09a7daa53afcab952fa
> 
>> Patch your kernel with the fixes you've identified are necessary,
>> then - it can take some time for fixes to propagate through the
>> stable process....
> 
> This is what I'm trying to avoid, out of sheer laziness. I suppose I'm
> going to have to do that if I want to have a working linux, though.
> 
In what way did this "eat" your root fs?  What happened?  Also, are you using a CRC-enabled filesystem?

-Eric