linux-ext4 - [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:28:10 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

--- Comment #66 from Jimmy.Jazz@....net ---
(In reply to Jens Axboe from comment #64)

> How certain are you that my 4.19 patch fixes the issue completely for you?

Without your patch the failure was mostly systematic in the time.
Synchronization mechanism is not trivial anyway. But statically there is hope.

> If 100%, can you also try with 4.19.4 + just the first hunk of that patch?

> In other words, only apply the part to block/blk-core.c, not the one to
> block/blk-mq.c

I understand, probably syncronize_rcu was a bit too much :). Let me 24h please.

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