Theodore Ts'o (tytso@xxxxxxx) wrote on 6 November 2012 08:17: >On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:04:49AM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >> In 3.6.6 some of the patches of the series "Bunch of DIO/AIO fixes V4" >> by Dmitry Monakhov have been applied but not all. In particular, patch >> 9, "fix ext4_ext_remove_space tree traversal" is not there. We're >> getting hit by the null pointer dereference in our main file servers. >> >> What's the situation of this patch? Any reason it's not applied? > >Patches which which change a large amount of code don't get the >cc:stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx label applied to them, primarily because of >the risk involved and the likelihood that those patches won't easily >get backported to the older stable kernels. Sure. I asked because we're having serious problems with a released version (3.5.2), so an available fix should have already been applied somewhere and I didn't recognize it. Dmitry sent the link that shows this is the case. Now we'll go to 3.6.6. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
