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Nasty bug in Linux 5.12 rc1
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:43 pm
by tosim
Linus Torvalds warns: Watch out for this unusually nasty bug in Linux 5.12 rc1
Linux kernel creator warns the latest kernel is "double ungood".
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-tor ... =712377858
Re: Nasty bug in Linux 5.12 rc1
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:01 pm
by user1111
Sounds like with swap partitions you're OK, but if using swap files then watch out, as it can lose the pointer to that and overwrite other filespace instead with swap data i.e. potentially very severe.
Re: Nasty bug in Linux 5.12 rc1
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 4:33 am
by Clarity