From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756039Ab3AXWaP (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:30:15 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35160 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755119Ab3AXWaJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:30:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:30:07 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Bret Towe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joel Becker , Mark Fasheh , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: crash in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage in kernel 3.5.0 Message-Id: <20130124143007.39c8545f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-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 On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:15:33 -0800 Bret Towe wrote: > > > > it looks like you have a patch for this problem in a queue somewhere > > (email found on ocfs2-dev: > > https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2012-August/008677.html ) > > but its not in 3.6, any reason for the delay? > > I've been running that patch on 3.5 for a while now likely since > > around the time i found that email > > and its been working well > > doesn't look to be in 3.7 or 3.8-git > and from what i see on ocfs2-dev there are at least 16 other patches > that are also being ignored? > I'm sure if I'm bothering at this point to maintain my own patchset to > keep ocfs2 from crashing > that there is other folks doing the same Please resend all OCFS2 patches, cc'ing myself, Mark, Joel and ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com. I shall then review them, merge them into -mm (and hence linux-next) so they can get a bit of visibility and testing while the maintainers are checking them over. Thanks.