linux-kernel - Re: bio linked list corruption.

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:39:22 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Chris Mason <clm@...com> wrote:
>
> Jens, not sure if you saw the whole thread.  This has triggered bad page
> state errors, and also corrupted a btrfs list.  It hurts me to say, but it
> might not actually be your fault.

Where is that thread, and what is the "this" that triggers problems?

Looking at the "->mq_list" users, I'm not seeing any changes there in
the last year or so. So I don't think it's the list itself.

              Linus