You just got lucky.....
This could affect anyone who ran out of free memory while doing IO to
a RAID1 array.
A recent change, which was intended to make this stuff more robust,
probably had the side effect of making the bug more fatal. So it
probably only affects people running 2.4.9.
It could affect earlier kernels, but they would have to sustain an
out-of-memory condition for longer.
NeilBrown
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