Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752698AbYCJQEe (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:04:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbYCJQE0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:04:26 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34948 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874AbYCJQEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:04:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:03:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Pierre Ossman Cc: LKML , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: inotify fixes in stable Message-ID: <20080310160317.GB20775@kroah.com> References: <20080310091155.02b7fe0e@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080310091155.02b7fe0e@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 25 On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I was hoping that the fixes for bug 7785 "BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 > set_dentry_child_flags()" could be added to the stable releases. I'm > seeing these quite frequently at customer installations. In the future, stable stuff should be sent to the stable@kernel.org email address and not directly to me, thanks. > The relevant commits are d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a and > 0d71bd5993b630a989d15adc2562a9ffe41cd26d. Hopefully these do not > depend on other updates. Nick would be the expert on that. Can you verify that if you apply just those 2 patches to the latest 2.6.24.3 kernel release, it fixes the issues for you? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/