Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:36:58 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: inotify fixes in stable |
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:03:17 -0700 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > I was hoping that the fixes for bug 7785 "BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 > > set_dentry_child_flags()" could be added to the stable releases. I'm > > seeing these quite frequently at customer installations. > > In the future, stable stuff should be sent to the stable@kernel.org > email address and not directly to me, thanks. >
Sorry. :/
> > The relevant commits are d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a and > > 0d71bd5993b630a989d15adc2562a9ffe41cd26d. Hopefully these do not > > depend on other updates. Nick would be the expert on that. > > Can you verify that if you apply just those 2 patches to the latest > 2.6.24.3 kernel release, it fixes the issues for you? >
The system is an OpenSuse 10.3 system, so 2.6.22.y would be the interesting one. I'll see if I can get a custom kernel in there (I've been unable to reproduce the problem outside a production environment).
Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
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