[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: check if cluster name exists before deref

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:00:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.de> wrote:

> > As a side note, how the hell was this new code path tested?
> > It's obviously broken and there's no way it even passes
> > a very basic test.
> 
> I'm not trying to 'defend' Goldwyn, or anything, but mistakes get made -
> it's a fact of life. We have a review process to hopefully catch these sorts
> of things, you are welcome to take part in it. In fact, if you were
> willing to test and report these sorts of things to the Ocfs2-devel list
> before they go upstream that would probably help prevent this sort of thing
> from happening in the future.

Well.  Sasha is the kernel's reigning testing-and-reporting champion. On
linux-next, no less.

What concerns me is that the wrong patch version was merged, or it got
mangled in flight somehow.