On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:51:58PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:31:27AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > > >>The vanilla kernel list tolds me to contact you directly. > > >They did? For what? > > Sorry if this is wrong. I asked there ([email protected]) > > who i should contact and they told me i should contact the kernel > > maintainer for 2.6.32 to report it. > > > > >Stable kernel stuff should go to [email protected], not to me directly. > > > > > >Anyway, is there a fix that should be added to the .32-stable tree > > >somewhere for this issue? > > The problem is that the fix was never applied to 2.6.32 as it needs > > to get backported first. > > > > Redhat has backported the patch here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642680 > > > > >I can apply patch 081003fff467ea0e727f66d5d435b4f473a789b3 to the tree, > > >but could you verify that it resolves your issue first before I do that? > > I would if someone can provide a backport for this fix. I tried it > > myself but i'm not a kernel hacker nor a C man. > > > > At least i'm seeing exactly the behaviour described in the fix and > > at the redhat bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642680 > > Ok, but Red Hat doesn't have the backported patch there, so I don't have > anything to go off of here :( > > I tried to backport the patch to 2.6.32, but it doesn't apply at all, > and I don't see how to make it work either. > > Any XFS developers want to help out and provide a fix for this problem > on the .32-stable kernel that I could apply?
I'm travelling for the next week and a half, so I won't be able to get to it any time soon.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
