Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases -- both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases -- every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-rc2-Released

[cl333r]

You keep posting smashed pc devices, I'm starting to worry about your mental health.

[dylanmtaylor]

Such a small change to fix such a nasty bug. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/co...a2008f81b93f14

[ms178]

Any Clang-LTO numbers incoming, Michael? It would be interesting to see a LTO vs. non-LTO benchmark Kernel comparison.

[Azrael5]

As applied by Firefox and Chrome would be useful the time of kernel development was reduced of two weeks.

[Guest]

That swapfile fix was backported to Linux 5.11.4 and now I'm wondering why.......

[mcoffin]

Thanks for reporting on this corruption issue. I delayed upgrading because of seeing it on my RSS feed, and you (likely) saved my bacon!