* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:19:01 -0400, Eric Whitney wrote: > > This reverts commit 948ca5f30e1df0c11eb5b0f410b9ceb97fa77ad9. > > > > Two crash reports from users running variations on 5.15-rc4 kernels > > suggest that it is premature to enforce the state assertion in the > > original commit. Both crashes were triggered by BUG calls in that > > code, indicating that under some rare circumstance the buffer head > > state did not match a delayed allocated block at the time the > > block was written out. No reproducer is available. Resolving this > > problem will require more time than remains in the current release > > cycle, so reverting the original patch for the time being is necessary > > to avoid any instability it may cause. > > > > [...] > > Applied, thanks! > > [1/1] Revert "ext4: enforce buffer head state assertion in ext4_da_map_blocks" > commit: 52264b162a51eadb0adcb55297cf91905c6ede98 > > Best regards, > -- > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Hi Ted: This reversion isn't visible in the 5.15 kernel. We'll want to get this in as a bug fix to 5.15.1 if possible. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to expedite. Thanks, Eric
