From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [Bug #13232] ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:10:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20090607201013.GC23883@mit.edu> References: <20090607171418.GA22756@mit.edu> <20090607171739.GI8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090607171739.GI8633-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Al Viro Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , David Watson , Jan Kara , bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:17:39PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:14:18PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:06:22PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > > of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13232 > > > Subject : ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix > > > Submitter : David Watson > > > Date : 2009-05-03 19:46 (36 days old) > > > > Al Viro has the fix for this in the for-next branch of his vfs-2.6 git > > tree, as commit ID 72a43d63: "ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets > > wedged by Postfix". I pinged Al previously about pushing this as a > > regression fix for 2.6.30, but never got a response. At this point we > > might as well wait for it to go into the 2.6.31 merge window, and then > > we can ask for it to go into the 2.6.30.y and 2.6.29.y stable trees. > > It's in mainline now, actually. But yes, we need it in -stable as well. Great, thanks; sorry, I didn't realize it had been queued for mainline submisison, and it wasn't there when I looked last week. I've closed the bugzilla entry since it is now in mainline. Would you like to send the patch to stable-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, or shall I? - Ted