linux-kernel - Re: [LKP] [ext4] 079f9927c7: ltp.mmap16.fail

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 13:34:42 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, lkp@...org,
        ltp@...ts.linux.it
Cc:     lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [LKP] [ext4] 079f9927c7: ltp.mmap16.fail

Hi Ted,

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 09:26, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:52:56AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7):
> >
> > commit: 079f9927c7bfa026d963db1455197159ebe5b534 ("ext4: gracefully handle ext4_break_layouts() failure during truncate")
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master

I do have found this problem on linux next 20190528 on x86_64, i386,
arm64 and arm architectures.
But, this failure is not easy to reproduce.
so thought of sharing report with steps to reproduce and got delayed.

>
> Jan --- this is the old version of your patch, which I had dropped
> before sending a push request to Linus.  However, I forgot to reset
> the dev branch so it still had the old patch on it, and so it got
> picked up in linux-next.  Apologies for the confusion.
>
> I've reset the dev branch on ext4.git, and the new version of your
> patch will show up there shortly, as I start reviewing patches for the
> next merge window.

However, Thanks for looking into this problem.
I will keep monitoring this mmap16 failure and let you know when it
will get fixed.

- Naresh