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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:32:20 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: another ext3 kernel BUG

On 6/13/11 10:21 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:43:07AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>  
>  > > You seem uniquely able to hit it, and you do have a truckload of interesting modules loaded.  :)
>  > 
>  > Interesting modules?
>  > alsa stuff, bluetooth, fuse/fat/vfat for ntfs/external drives, wlan
>  > the only thing that stand out is the vbox* I guess, all the others are
>  > pretty standard, aren't they?
> 
> we've been getting a lot of bug reports in Fedora that have the vbox module
> loaded that manifest in various ways that look like it's corrupting kernel data
> structures. (Usually it scribbles over some linked list, and the CONFIG_LIST_DEBUG
> stuff catches it).
> 
> I'd definitly try and reproduce it without that having been loaded if you can.
> 
> 	Dave

Yep, that's what I thought was "interesting" :)

-Eric
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