linux-ext4 - Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx

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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:27:25 +0300
From:	Török Edwin <edwin@...rok.net>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx_probe

On 2016-08-08 09:28, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 11:56:34PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:15:48PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>>>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ext4/inode.c?id=b47820edd1634dc1208f9212b7ecfb4230610a23
>>>>
>>>> I added the patch, rebuilt and rebooted.  It will take some time
>>>> before I'll report back since the issue is so hard to reproduce.
>>>
>>> FWIW I could trigger it reliably by running a bunch of directory traversal
>>> programs simultaneously on the same directory.  I have a script that fires
>>> up multiple mutts pointing to the Maildirs for the high traffic Linux lists.
>>
>> Hmm, I wonder if we should request that this patch be backported to
>> -stable.  Darrick, what do you think?
> 
> Seems like an excellent idea.

Hi,

I see 4.7.1. was released, however before testing it in the changelog I can't see the inode.c commit with the checksum fix.
Is there another commit that would provide an equivalent fix, or is the fix not part of 4.7.1?

Best regards,
--Edwin
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