linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.31.10

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:33:29 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org,
	dmonakhov@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.31.10

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:36:07PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:27:21PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.31.10 kernel.  All users of the
>>>>> 2.6.31 kernel series are very strongly encouraged to upgrade.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Something broken here, during using a suse 11.2 installation with quota
>>>> switched on (this is reproducible )
>>>
>>> Jan, this looks like something in the quota patches you sent.  Any
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>> Thomas, is this on an ext3 or ext4 partition, or something else?
>>
>>
>> The one with quota enabled was an ext3 partition, mounted on /
>
> Thanks.
>
> Could you run 'git bisect' between the two kernel versions to try to
> track the problem down to the single patch?

Done, between 2.6.31.9 and 2.6.31.11


c169e13a6662cbf36fc0098508e7aa31b49cbf23 is first bad commit
commit c169e13a6662cbf36fc0098508e7aa31b49cbf23
Author: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 14 15:21:13 2009 +0300

     quota: decouple fs reserved space from quota reservation

     commit fd8fbfc1709822bd94247c5b2ab15a5f5041e103 upstream.



Reverting that patch on top of 2.6.31.11 fixes the problem for me.

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