On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Markus Blank-Burian wrote: > Hi, > > as discussed in http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/10450 the 3.14 kernel > sometimes hits a NULL pointer dereference if the MDS server crashes. > The corresponding fix is in commit > 00bd8edb861eb41d274938cfc0338999d9c593a3 which only adds a list_empty > check. The patch applies cleanly with a -1 offset to the 3.14 tree and > is included in mainline kernel since 3.15. > Can this patch be included in one of the next stable releases? Yeah, definitely. We haven't been aggressive about sending cephfs fixes to stable but will start doing so soon. This particular one is is safe to backport. Greg, do you need a patch sent to stable@ or is the sha1 above enough? Thanks! sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html