On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:32:55AM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: > 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? The sha1 is enough, I'll queue it up soon when I get caught up on my stable patch backlog. thanks, greg k-h -- 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