linux-kernel - Re: inotify fixes in stable

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Message-ID: <20080310203658.3bdbc27c@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:36:58 +0100
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: inotify fixes in stable

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:03:17 -0700
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > I was hoping that the fixes for bug 7785 "BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172
> > set_dentry_child_flags()" could be added to the stable releases. I'm
> > seeing these quite frequently at customer installations.
> 
> In the future, stable stuff should be sent to the stable@...nel.org
> email address and not directly to me, thanks.
> 

Sorry. :/

> > The relevant commits are d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a and
> > 0d71bd5993b630a989d15adc2562a9ffe41cd26d. Hopefully these do not
> > depend on other updates. Nick would be the expert on that.
> 
> Can you verify that if you apply just those 2 patches to the latest
> 2.6.24.3 kernel release, it fixes the issues for you?
> 

The system is an OpenSuse 10.3 system, so 2.6.22.y would be the interesting one. I'll see if I can get a custom kernel in there (I've been unable to reproduce the problem outside a production environment).

Rgds
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