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Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1914 - page_buffers()
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On 12.05.23 14:19, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:21:27AM +0200, Marcus Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 18:57, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, sorry, I didn't see it since it was in an attachment as opposed
>>> to with an explicit [PATCH] subject line.
>>>
>>> And at this point, the data=3Djournal writeback patches have landed in
>>> the ext4/dev tree, and while we could try to see if we could land this
>>> before the next merge window, I'm worried about merge or semantic
>>> conflicts of having both patches in a tree at one time.
>>>
>>> I guess we could send it to Linus, let it get backported into stable,
>>> and then revert it during the merge window, ahead of applying the
>>> data=3Djournal cleanup patch series.  But that seems a bit ugly.  Or we
>>> could ask for an exception from the stable kernel folks, after I do a
>>> full set of xfstests runs on it.  (Of course, I don't think anyone has
>>> been able to create a reliable reproducer, so all we can do is to test
>>> for regression failures.)
>>>
>>> Jan, Greg, what do you think?
>>
>> We've noticed this appearing for us as well now (on 5.15 with
>> data=3Djournaled) and I wanted to ask what the status here is. Did any f=
ix
>> here make it into a stable kernel yet? If not, I suppose I can still
>> apply the patch posted above as a quick-fix until this (or another
>> solution) makes it into the stable tree?
>
> Any reason you can't just move to 6.1.y instead?  What prevents that?
>

We will move to 6.1.y soon-ish (we are downstream from the rpi kernel tree)
Is this problem fixed there though? I couldn't really find anything
related to that in the tree?

Best,
Marcus
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