On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17:30PM +0100, Damien Wyart wrote: > * David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071219 11:45]: > > Can someone pass me a brown paper bag, please? > > My first impression on this bug was not so wrong, after all ;-) > > > That also explains why we haven't seen it - it requires the user buffer to > > fill on the first entry of a backing buffer and so it is largely dependent > > on the pattern of name lengths, page size and filesystem block size > > aligning just right to trigger the problem. > > I guess I was lucky to trigger it quite easily... > > > Can you test this patch, Damien? > > Works fine, all the bad symptoms have disappeared and strace output is > normal. > > So you can add: > > Tested-by: Damien Wyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for reporting the bug and testing the fix so quickly, Damien. I'll give it some more QA before I push it, though. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
