On Thu, 3 May 2012 23:37:38 -0700 Karl Newman <siliconfiend@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somehow gmail marked this email as read, too, so I missed it. Anyway, > that did it! With this patch applied I can successfully boot! I tested > the offending commit by itself first with the all-zeros uuid patch > applied and confirmed the bug was still present, then applied this > patch and the bug was gone. I also applied this patch to 3.4-rc5 and > confirmed that it was still good. Thanks - and good news. I'd still like to know how this bug manages to cause a crash (I create an array that have identical "mdadm -E" and "mdadm -X" output on an x86_64 machine, and couldn't make it crash). I'll add a Reported-by: and Tested-by: for you and submit to Linus shortly. > > Thank you for your help on this issue, and thank you for your work as > a kernel developer and supporting this crucial component. A pleasure - specially when I get to work with helpful and responsive people :-) NeilBrown > > Sincerely, > > Karl Newman
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