linux-kernel - Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

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Message-Id: <20110302155226.05fbe993.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:52:26 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	thomas@...llstrom.ca
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File/memory corruption in 2.6.37?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:31:00 -0700
Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca> wrote:

> On February 25, 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > On February 25, 2011, you wrote:
> > > > Ever since I upgraded to 2.6.37 from 2.6.36, that kmail's folder
> > > > indexes are being corrupted fairly regularly. Far more often than is
> > > > usual (almost never). Several a day in fact are being corrupted. I can
> > > > only imagine that this isn't the only corruption happening and it is
> > > > worrying.
> > > 
> > > Forgot to give any kind of useful info:
> > > 
> > > System: Lenovo SL500 laptop, intel core2duo T9400 cpu, 4G ram, gm45 intel
> > > gfx
> > > 
> > > running debian sid, with the current debian 2.6.37 kernel, was running a
> > > hand rolled 2.6.36 kernel with autogroup applied and didn't have these
> > > issues.
> > 
> > Could you verify that with an hand rolled 2.6.37.2 ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 	tglx
> 
> I suppose it won't hurt to give it a try.
> 

Any results yet?

Which filesystem is being used?  I've seen at least one similar report
for reiserfs.

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