Re: [OOPS] NFS dereferenced NULL pointer with 3.2.6 kernel.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 02/20/2012 11:09 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:43 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 02/20/2012 10:35 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 13:27 -0500, Jim Rees wrote:
>>>> Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     It's a known bug. There is a fix at
>>>>
>>>>     http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=trondmy/nfs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=331818f1c468a24e581aedcbe52af799366a9dfe
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't this be in stable by now?  You sent it Feb 3, and there have been
>>>> two stable releases since then.
>>>
>>> I've been waiting for Andy to get back from vacation. We've already sent
>>> one buggy patch to stable...
>>>
>>
>> It's still not in 3.3-rc either, at least put it there so others
>> can test it?
>
> 3.3-rc is _NOT_ a place to put patches for testing... You test the
> patches _BEFORE_ you send them upstream.

Ok, but seems like it would be pretty lame to release 3.3 with this known
crash bug.

And, though I haven't done any thorough NFS testing, I could hit the
bug every time before I applied the patch..and since I applied it,
I have not had any problems.

So, it has been tested at least a bit.

Thanks,
Ben

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