linux-ext4 - Re: possible bug ?

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Message-ID: <20120919162600.GA21210@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:26:00 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Adrian Sandu <dexter@...t3r01.tk>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible bug ?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:13:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/19/12 9:44 AM, Adrian Sandu wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > 
> > While trying to delete a couple of files today, I got into this lil'
> > thingy. It first happened in mc, then at a reboot.
> 
> Did you cut off a few lines before this?  Like one that said NULL pointer
> dereference, or BUG() at .... or something similar?
> 
> I think we have a few reports of this in the fedora bugzilla, I don't
> think we've gotten to the bottom of it yet.

The fix is in mainline, and backported to v3.5.3.  If Fedora's kernel
hasn't been updated to v3.5.3, it would be great if you could
encourage an update to get pushed out.

Thanks,

						- Ted
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