linux-kernel - Re: kerneloops.org: 2.6.26-rc possible regression in ext3

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Message-ID: <20080619081146.GC17630@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:11:46 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: kerneloops.org: 2.6.26-rc possible regression in ext3

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:42:34PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > In the kerneloops.org stats, a new oops is rapidly climbing the charts.
> > The oops is a page fault in the ext3 "do_slit" function, and the first
> > report of it was with 2.6.26-rc6-git3.
> >
> > It happens with various applications; the backtraces are at:
> >
> > http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=do_split
> 
> This is a bug in rawhide in gcc miscompiling something...
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068

If I understand it correctly that's a bug in upstream gcc 4.3.1
(but not in gcc 4.3.0)?

Expect a lot more of this to pop up in the future.
Should we #error for gcc 4.3.1?

> Dave.

cu
Adrian

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