On 12/02/2016 02:29 PM, Ewan D. Milne wrote:
On Fri, 2016-12-02 at 04:21 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:40:31AM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
Specifically, the problem appears to be caused by the removal of
the setting of bio->bi_bdev, which would previously be set to NULL.
If I add:

Very odd.  For one I would expect it to be NULL anyway, second
I don't see why the behavior changed.  But given that this reverts
to the original assignment and makes things work I'll happily hack it
to get things working again:

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>

Yeah, I'm not sure I understand this either, apart from the change
adjusting the code to effectively do what it used to and making the
test case work.  I'm reluctant to cc: stable yet, let me look at this
a bit more and I'll post the actual patch soon.

Plus we found that this is basically a timing issue; we've found that supposedly fixed bugs will crop up after ~4k iterations.
(Johannes did a _lot_ of testing here :-)
So just because the bug failed to materialize can also mean that you simply didn't test long enough.

Cheers,

Hannes
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