Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:31:16 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: inotify fixes in stable |
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > 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).
2.6.22.y is no longer being released by me, so it isn't interesting to me at all :)
What about 2.6.24? Is this still an issue there?
thanks,
greg k-h
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