[Ocfs2-devel] crash in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage in kernel 3.5.0

Bret Towe magnade at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 19:40:36 PST 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:15:33 -0800
> Bret Towe <magnade at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > it looks like you have a patch for this problem in a queue somewhere
>> > (email found on ocfs2-dev:
>> > https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2012-August/008677.html )
>> > but its not in 3.6, any reason for the delay?
>> > I've been running that patch on 3.5 for a while now likely since
>> > around the time i found that email
>> > and its been working well
>>
>> doesn't look to be in 3.7 or 3.8-git
>> and from what i see on ocfs2-dev there are at least 16 other patches
>> that are also being ignored?
>> I'm sure if I'm bothering at this point to maintain my own patchset to
>> keep ocfs2 from crashing
>> that there is other folks doing the same
>
> Please resend all OCFS2 patches, cc'ing myself, Mark, Joel and
> ocfs2-devel at oss.oracle.com.
>
> I shall then review them, merge them into -mm (and hence linux-next) so
> they can get a bit of visibility and testing while the maintainers are
> checking them over.
>
> Thanks.

I've just been browsing the ocfs2-dev archives do you want me to pull them
and resend or should i just link to the archive?
keep in mind I'm just a end user not really a dev persay
if you do want me to send the patches however I assume there is a document
i should read first?



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