Re: [Bug #14472] EXT4 corruption

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-10-29T21:31:43Z

On Thursday 29 October 2009, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> > of recent regressions.
> >
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 2.6.31. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> > (either way).
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14472
> > Subject : EXT4 corruption
> > Submitter : Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
> > Date : 2009-10-13 2:07 (14 days old)
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125539997508256&w=4
> > Handled-By : Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
> >
>
>
> This but is *not* fixed. I just triggered it a few minutes ago by
> abusing i915 and drm, which caused a panic. This is slightly newer
> than 2.6.32-rc5, with a couple of i915 bugfixes thrown in.
>
> Photos are here:
> http://web.mit.edu/luto/www/ext4_crashphotos/
>
> This is a very nasty regression, for obvious reasons.

Thanks for the update.

Rafael