linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] XArray: revert (unintentional?) behavior change

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Message-ID: <blhrpa6do6ishcimnskwqjndu75cnv6ky7k3tznp7pczrsig65@ky6yo4upky6m>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:21:43 +0000
From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>, 
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XArray: revert (unintentional?) behavior change

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 09:37:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:17:08 -0400 Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Partially revert commit 6684aba0780d ("XArray: Add extra debugging check
> > to xas_lock and friends"), fixing test failures in check_xa_alloc.
> > 
> > Fixes: 6684aba0780d ("XArray: Add extra debugging check to xas_lock and friends")
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 6684aba0780d appears to be only in linux-next.  It has no Link: and my
> efforts to google its origin story failed.  Help?
> 

It was added back in september to willy's tree due to an XFS data corruption bug.
See https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZvLhrF5lj3x596Qm@casper.infradead.org/ and
https://git.infradead.org/?p=users/willy/xarray.git;a=commitdiff;h=6684aba0780da9f505c202f27e68ee6d18c0aa66.

-- 
Pedro