On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:00:01PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
Hello everybody,
a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption bug in latest stable kernels. [0]
Looks like the root cause is not really clear so far. Reverting the commit in question should fix the problem though.
[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/690 -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
Why would you suggest a revert and that "the root cause is not really clear" when tytso has already proposed a fix along with a detailed explanation of why the bug occurs? d