Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755312AbYCJTjU (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751435AbYCJTjK (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:10 -0400 Received: from gateway.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.16]:58396 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbYCJTjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:36:58 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman To: Greg KH Cc: LKML , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: inotify fixes in stable Message-ID: <20080310203658.3bdbc27c@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <20080310160317.GB20775@kroah.com> References: <20080310091155.02b7fe0e@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> <20080310160317.GB20775@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1495 Lines: 38 On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:03:17 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > 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. > Sorry. :/ > > 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? > The system is an OpenSuse 10.3 system, so 2.6.22.y would be the interesting one. I'll see if I can get a custom kernel in there (I've been unable to reproduce the problem outside a production environment). Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org -- 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/