linux-ext4 - Re: another ext3 kernel BUG

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:03:13 +0900
From:	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: another ext3 kernel BUG

Hi everyone,

On Mo, 13 Jun 2011, Dave Jones wrote:
> we've been getting a lot of bug reports in Fedora that have the vbox module
> loaded that manifest in various ways that look like it's corrupting kernel data
> structures. (Usually it scribbles over some linked list, and the CONFIG_LIST_DEBUG
> stuff catches it).

Ahh, ok. I thought that if the modules are loaded but NOT in use,
in the sense no vbox is running, then they cannot do much harm.
At the end it was always on heavy IO load without any vbox interaction.

But I will recompile with CONFIG_LIST_DEBUG and see what comes out.

Best wishes

Norbert
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