linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.8-rc2

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:02:30 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>
Cc: dsterba@...e.cz, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.8-rc2

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 13:56, Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024/1/27 08:21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Allocation lifetime problems?
>
> Could be, thus it may be better to output the flags of the first page
> for tree-checker.

Note that the fact that it magically went away certainly implies that
it never "really" existed, and that something was using a pointer or
similar.

IOW, this is not some IO that got scribbled over, or a cache that got
corrupted. If it had been real corruption, I would have expected that
it would have stayed around in memory.

                 Linus