Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:07:57 +1100 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.38-rc3 |
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:00:33AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > On 11-01-31 11:42 AM, Alex Elder wrote: > > Linus, please accept the following updates for XFS, for 2.6.38-rc3 > > (if it's not too late) or 2.6.38-rc4. > > > > They are all fixes for bugs that have some pretty undesirable > > consequences. They address: > > - One spot in which a hang can occur due to neglecting to drop a > > lock > > - A bug which in some cases a bogus block number can be recorded in > > a block map btree, resulting in a subsequent BUG_ON(). > > - Two memory leaks > > - Three places in which extent sizes are allowed to exceed various > > size limits > > - One place where code depends on behavior that is not well-defined > > by the C standard > > - One problem in handling transaction commit errors > > > Are these bugs all new in 2.6.38, or should some of these fixes > also go out to -stable for earlier revisions? > > > > Dave Chinner (8): > > xfs: fix log ticket leak on forced shutdown. > > xfs: fix efi item leak on forced shutdown
Been there for years, extremely hard to hit, so no.
> > xfs: speculative delayed allocation uses rounddown_power_of_2 badly
-38-rc1 regression, so no.
> > xfs: limit extent length for allocation to AG size > > xfs: prevent extsize alignment from exceeding maximum extent size > > xfs: limit extsize to size of AGs and/or MAXEXTLEN
Been there for years in little used functionality, so no.
> > xfs: handle CIl transaction commit failures correctly
Introduced with new code in 2.6.35, hard to hit, only results in small memory leaks, so no.
> > xfs: fix dquot shaker deadlock
That's a regression, so maybe.
> > bpm@sgi.com (1): > > xfs: xfs_bmap_add_extent_delay_real should init br_startblock
Been there for years, no evidence ATM that this code path can be exercised with a mainline kernel, so no.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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