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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: Please apply 501228470077 ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes") to 4.4.y and 4.9.y
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:57:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180815055720.GF10151@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANDihLELvY4gbLonzny6+x6EbxQ3ii6RA0Mu+SuZFa_SWYJXFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:53:49PM -0700, Alistair Strachan wrote:
> The commit 8844618d8aa7 ("ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it
> is valid") introduced an issue which are seeing when running "adb
> remount" on Android devices with the affected kernels. This change
> appears on 4.4.y and later.
> 
> > EXT4-fs error (device vdd): ext4_has_uninit_itable:2882: comm remount svc 50: Inode table for bg 0 marked as needing zeroing
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: EXT4-fs (device vdd): panic forced after error
> 
> Looks like this fix was already picked up for 4.14.y, 4.17.y but
> (AFAIK) it isn't on anybody's radar for 4.4 and 4.9. Thanks!

This is already queued up in the 4.4 and 4.9 -rc releases.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-15  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 19:53 Please apply 501228470077 ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes") to 4.4.y and 4.9.y Alistair Strachan
2018-08-15  5:57 ` Greg KH [this message]

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