linux-ext4 - Re: possible bug ?

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:30:37 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Adrian Sandu <dexter@...t3r01.tk>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible bug ?

On 9/19/12 11:26 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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.

Hm I thought we had a similar bug on 3.5.3 so didn't think
it was fixed.   let me check ... Nope sorry, it was older.

Thanks for the info, sorry I had missed it.

-Eric



> Thanks,
> 
> 						- Ted
> 

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