# Adventure in the Linux Kernel

https://hack42.nl/blog/2025/09/adventure-in-the-linux-kernel

Adventure in the Linux Kernel Sep 24, 2025 — by Raboof in Overig When I started debugging this issue, I had no idea how far down the rabbithole would go! A few months ago, I was writing an end-to-end test for the Nextcloud integration with OnlyOffice under NixOS, to be run in a QEMU virtual machine. Curiously, my test suffered from corrupt reads from a host folder that was mounted into the VM. That was the start of a journey that led me deep into the Linux Kernel. The circumstances under which the problem occured were very specific: a certain file, read from a host folder that was mounted in

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Created: 2026-10-20T19:09:44.289974+00:00

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