Re: v3.8-rc6: btrfs-transacti Tainted: GF in btrfs_orphan_commit_root

[Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>]

On 02/11/2013 05:08 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:21:16AM -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> Running an Ubuntu Raring VM which was built a week ago that is now running
>> 3.8-rc6, I was booting it last night when it hung.  After a few forced
>> reboots, it came back up and I found the attached in kern.log.
>>
>> Are these reports useful?  Is there any additional information I can provide
>> from the VM?  What happens if it gets hung again, is there additional
>> information I can gather?
>
> Yes they're useful, we can see if it's a known or new issue. I've hit
> the same problem not so long ago and a guy on IRC reported the same
> problem yesterday.
>
> There's a fix from Josef, https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2083101/
> and given the increasing number of reports (the warning followed by a
> crash), I think this this a material for a late -rc.
>
> Chris please consider picking this patch for 3.8. I think it qualifies
> as a regression sice we haven't hit earlier than 3.8-rc4.

Looking at the v3.8 tag, it doesn't look like it made it in.

Since I ran into this issue on a week old VM, is it possible for this 
patch to make its way into 3.8.1, so it'll be picked up by Ubuntu 
automatically?

Thanks,
Blair