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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:02:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.8-rc2
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, 
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 13:56, Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.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