Meanwhile the issue addressed by this patch was fixed upstream with commit 877ba3f729fd ("ext4: fix potential htree corruption when growing large_dir directories").
The upstream patch was already cherry-picked to hirsute with "upstream stable patchset 2021-08-30" [1] commit ffcc845ec245) and focal with "v5.4.140 upstream stable release" [2] (commit 93ad4c3f59c6).
In order to address https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1933074 the following
SAUCE patch was introduced.
Colin Ian King (1):
UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: fix directory index node split corruption
fs/ext4/namei.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Meanwhile the issue addressed by this patch was fixed upstream with commit 877ba3f729fd ("ext4: fix potential htree corruption when growing large_dir directories").
The upstream patch was already cherry-picked to hirsute with "upstream stable patchset 2021-08-30" [1] commit ffcc845ec245) and focal with "v5.4.140 upstream stable release" [2] (commit 93ad4c3f59c6).
[1] BugLink: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1942123 /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1941798
[2] BugLink: https:/
Therefore the SAUCE patch can be either dropped or reverted.