linux-kernel - Re: xfs: fix buffer lookup race on allocation failure

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Message-ID: <20121016204635.GG2864@dastard>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:46:35 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	William Dauchy <wdauchy@...il.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@....com>,
	Ben Myers <bpm@....com>
Subject: Re: xfs: fix buffer lookup race on allocation failure

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:27:48AM +0200, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> > You're running a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG kernel. If you can reproduce the
> > problem with CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG, then it probably should be
> > backported.
> 
> Yes indeed.

Sorry, I had a typo in the above - I meant:

If you can reproduce the problem *without* CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG, then it
probably should be backported.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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