[Bug 1364091] Re: Possible RAID-6 corruption

[Seth Forshee]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 03:00:18PM -0000, RoyK wrote:
> According to the article at http://lwn.net/Articles/608896/, this bug
> shouldn't need fixing in handle_stripe5(), only in handle_stripe6(), but
> then again, I don't know the code.

Hmm. I interpreted the comment to mean that backports to older kernels
should _also_ change handle_stripe6, but reading it again I suspect your
interpretation is probably the right one. But then I'm not sure, because
I don't really know the code either.

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Title:
  Possible RAID-6 corruption

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  It seems there's a bug in newer kernels that may lead to corruption on
  RAID-6. There's a fix, too

  http://lwn.net/Articles/608896/

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