linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer

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Message-ID: <49076A36.5040802@vlnb.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:38:30 +0300
From:	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Saturday 25 October 2008 03:10, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> During recent debugging session of my SCSI target SCST
>> (http://scst.sf.net) I noticed many
>>
>> WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()
>>
>> messages in kernel log on the initiator. I attached the full log of
>> several of them.
>>
>> My target was buggy and I was working on fixing it, but I suppose Linux
>> should handle such failures more gracefully. In all the cases the target
>> had one type of failure: it "ate" a SCSI command and never returned
>> result of it.
> 
> Right. This is one of the warnings I see in my fault-injection testing.
> It is fixed by my patch to clean up and improve the page and buffer
> error handling in the vm/fs.

Can you specify which patch you referring? Is it in 2.6.27?
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