From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751714Ab1GRPBp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:01:45 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:58816 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758Ab1GRPBo (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:01:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:01:41 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Barkalow , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with hfsplus on ipods in 2.6.38+ Message-ID: <20110718150141.GA28123@infradead.org> References: <20110714135302.GA28501@thinkpad-t410> <20110715143900.GB19063@thinkpad-t410> <20110718133651.GA19552@thinkpad-t410> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110718133651.GA19552@thinkpad-t410> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:36:51AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:39:00AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > > What I also see are GPFs in memory allocation code, which is what I > > believe others have seen with my patch, and so far I haven't seen those > > with the reversions. So I'm suspecting memory corruption, but I don't > > yet see where the corruption is coming form. I found one problem, but I > > don't suspect it's responsible for the GPFs. > > I had some torture tests running over the weekend with the "one > problem" mentioned above fixed, which was a couple of kfrees that were > still using the old vhdr pointers. There were no oopses over a couple of > days of testing. I've posted a new build on the bug in launchpad in > hopes of getting some testing from those who were getting oopses quite > readily. The updated patch follows. Thanks a lot Seth. I'll put it into my queue for Linux 3.1, and if everthing works out fine we can push it out to -stable.