Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Aug 2016 23:56:34 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx_probe |
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On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:15:48PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ext4/inode.c?id=b47820edd1634dc1208f9212b7ecfb4230610a23 > > > > I added the patch, rebuilt and rebooted. It will take some time > > before I'll report back since the issue is so hard to reproduce. > > FWIW I could trigger it reliably by running a bunch of directory traversal > programs simultaneously on the same directory. I have a script that fires > up multiple mutts pointing to the Maildirs for the high traffic Linux lists.
Hmm, I wonder if we should request that this patch be backported to -stable. Darrick, what do you think?
- Ted
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