linux-kernel - Re: another ext3 kernel BUG

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:21:11 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: another ext3 kernel BUG

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:43:07AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
 
 > > You seem uniquely able to hit it, and you do have a truckload of interesting modules loaded.  :)
 > 
 > Interesting modules?
 > alsa stuff, bluetooth, fuse/fat/vfat for ntfs/external drives, wlan
 > the only thing that stand out is the vbox* I guess, all the others are
 > pretty standard, aren't they?

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).

I'd definitly try and reproduce it without that having been loaded if you can.

	Dave
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