Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:28:33 -0700 | From | "Darrick J. Wong" <> | Subject | Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx_probe |
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:25PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote: > On 2016-08-08 09:28, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 11:56:34PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > >> 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? > > > > Seems like an excellent idea. > > Hi, > > I see 4.7.1. was released, however before testing it in the changelog I can't > see the inode.c commit with the checksum fix. Is there another commit that > would provide an equivalent fix, or is the fix not part of 4.7.1?
There's no 'equivalent' fix; the one we have simply didn't make it to the stable maintainers before 4.7.1 came out.
(Hey Ted, can you send the patch to ... whomever's in charge of 4.7?)
--D
> > Best regards, > --Edwin
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