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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ian.campbell@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] raid1 behind writes alter bio structure illegally
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:57:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A707F85.5090008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A707578.3010901@steeleye.com>

Hi Paul,

Paul Clements wrote:
> I've run into this bug on a 2.6.18 kernel, but I think the fix is still 
> applicable to the latest kernels (even though the symptoms would be 
> slightly different).
> 
> Perhaps someone who knows the block and/or SCSI layers well can comment 
> on the legality of attaching new pages to a bio without fixing up the 
> internal bio counters (details below)?

> LVM over raid1 over SCSI/nbd

Please can you try that backporting of this patch helps?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5d84070ee0a433620c57e85dac7f82faaec5fbb3

(If so, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512387)

Milan
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mbroz@redhat.com


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-29 16:14 [BUG] raid1 behind writes alter bio structure illegally Paul Clements
2009-07-29 16:57 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2009-07-29 20:18   ` Paul Clements

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