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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:41:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:31:50PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > I'll retry on 3.12-rc and with a few extra backported
> > fixes on 3.8.
> 
> It looks like I was just missing a few upstream bugfixes. That's what I
> get for not properly following -stable properly :(
> 
> With the additional backporting of these two commits, my filesystem
> tests survived overnight:
> 
>   commit 2928f0d0c5ebd6c9605c0d98207a44376387c298
>   Author: Adam Thomas <adamthomas1111@gmail.com>
>   Date:   Sat Feb 2 22:32:31 2013 +0000
> 
>       UBIFS: fix use of freed ubifs_orphan objects
> 
>   commit 8afd500cb52a5d00bab4525dd5a560d199f979b9
>   Author: Adam Thomas <adamthomas1111@gmail.com>
>   Date:   Sat Feb 2 22:35:08 2013 +0000
> 
>       UBIFS: fix double free of ubifs_orphan objects
> 
> Sorry for the noise. I guess this is a lesson for others, though. Greg
> KH isn't joking when he says "all users must upgrade"!
> 

Interesting findings and interesting lesson :-)

I'll keep this in mind and thanks for sharing your findings!
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com