ext3 updates for 2.4.20

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:41:38 PDT 2004


Andrew Morton (by way of Douglas J Hunley ) wrote:

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>There are three patches at
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>	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.4/2.4.20/
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>sync_fs.patch:
>	Fix the ext3 data=journal data-loss-on-unmount bug
>
>sync_fs-fix.patch:
>	Fix sync_fs.patch to not deadlock the fs when running
>	`mount -o remount' against a heavily loaded filesystem.
>
>ext3-use-after-free.patch
>	Fix a use-after-free bug which can cause memory corruption
>	if the filesystem runs out of space, or runs out of free
>	inodes.
>
>
>Instructions for downloading and applying these patches are at
>
>	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/
>  
>
Can I apply these if I have already applied the patch that was posted 
here last week?

-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com






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