----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch fixes a regression in the patch "GFS2: Remember directory > > insert point", commit 2b47dad866d04f14c328f888ba5406057b8c7d33. > > The problem had to do with the rename function: The function found > > space for the new dirent, and remembered that location. But then the > > old dirent was removed, which often moved the eligible location for > > the renamed dirent. Putting the new dirent at the saved location > > caused file system corruption. > > > > This patch adds a new "save_loc" variable to struct gfs2_diradd. > > If 1, the dirent location is saved. If 0, the dirent location is not > > saved and the buffer_head is released as per previous behavior. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Did you mean to send this to the upstream kernel list, or is this > somehow Fedora specific? > > josh Hi Josh, The patch is already in the gfs2 "nmw" tree upstream but it hasn't been pulled by Linus yet: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw.git/commit/fs/gfs2?id=19aeb5a65f1a6504fc665466c188241e7393d66f It is not Fedora specific. Maybe I need to send it elsewhere? I just want to make sure it gets into the Fedora-20 stable kernel and such. I've always just posted patches like this upstream and let $MAGIC get them into Fedora, but in this case, the bug is pretty nasty. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat File Systems _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
