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Linus Torvalds has sent out a note telling people not to install the recent
5.12-rc1 development kernel; this is especially true for anybody running
with swap files. “But I want everybody to be aware of because _if_
it bites you, it bites you hard, and you can end up with a filesystem that
is essentially overwritten by random swap data. This is what we in the
industry call ‘double ungood’.” Additionally, he is asking
maintainers to not start branches from 5.12-rc1 to avoid future situations where
people land in the buggy code while bisecting problems.