On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:33:34PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:57:06PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:46:44PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 03:28:35PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > > > > > > > Apologies for my earlier mails; I fat fingered my git send-email run > > > > which I'd > > > > really only intended for a dry-run. > > > > > > > > The following patch series is a backport of several changes to fix an > > > > XFS > > > > stale data exposure issue in 2.6.32.y. This was assigned CVE-2010-2943. > > > > > > > > I verified this change using the provided reproducer (test 238 in > > > > xfsqa). > > > > > > Please do a full XFSQA auto group run to make sure the backport doesn't > > > regress anything else. > > > > I did two runs w/ an unpatched kernel & two w/ the patch, and found no > > regressions. There are several tests that failed on both kernels and > > some tests that failed sporadically, regardless of the kernel. > > > > My test environment was a Debian/squeeze VM on my laptop, using 4G > > loopback files for the test/scratch filesystems. > > > > A list of past/fail runs is here: > > > > https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjApGT0faJw7dFZBQ2M1QUVsMHpQMzR0Z3drQU82ekE&hl=en&authkey=CIno-6EB > > It looks like you ran some tests that are known to fail or give > unreliable results that have been excluded from the auto test group. > You should use 'check -g auto' to get all the known good test to > run. Of the other test failures (e.g the ones in the 200s) they are > probably all exercising bugs that have been fixed since 2.6.32 so > can mostly be ignored, I think.
Ah ok - Christoph did mention running the auto test group, but it wasn't clear to me what that meant (grep 'auto' in the README returned nothing). But now that I see the test group support, it seems obvious in retrospect :) > I'd say the patch set is good to go. Thanks for doing this! Yep, np. > Cheers, > > Dave. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
