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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:58:22 +0200
From:	Jan Dittmer <jdi@....org>
To:	Nathan Scott <nathans@....com>
CC:	kernel <linux@...center.cn>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Bug null pointer dereference in xfs_free_ag_extent

Nathan Scott schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> 
>>kernel schrieb:
>>
>>>I have the same problem, but it seems not have a patch right now.
>>
>>No, I got zero feedback, but let's cc the correct
>>mailing list. I also filed bug 6877 at kernel.org
>>
> 
> 
> Is this easily reproducible for you?  I've not seen it before, and
> the only possibly related recent changes I can think of are these:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e63a3690013a475746ad2cea998ebb534d825704
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d210a28cd851082cec9b282443f8cc0e6fc09830
> 
> Could you try reverting each of those to see if either is the cause?

No, the XFS partition in question is gone due to the infamous
endian bug in 2.6.17. I only saw the error once. Hardware is
4 sata drives on a sil-something controller with software
raid5. No lvm. But the error reads like a rename race of some
kind?

Jan
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