On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:03:02PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 16:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > 2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us > > know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: NeilBrown <[email protected]> > > > > commit 93b270f76e7ef3b81001576860c2701931cdc78b upstream. > > > > There are two cases when we call flush_disk. > > In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any > > data will hold becomes irrelevant. > > In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change) > > so data we hold may be irrelevant. > [...] > > This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes > > check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any > > kernel since 2.6.27. > [...] > > Unfortunately this fix appears to depend on at least these changes in > 2.6.37, and so is not immediately applicable to earlier versions: > > commit 99a38919241fd051b8d93b2e4d0c05ef0556d795 > Author: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Oct 23 19:07:20 2010 +0200 > > fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list > > commit d895a1c96af8c2a0f6a5e0119695a7c6b92df8db > Author: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > Date: Sun Oct 24 19:40:24 2010 +0200 > > fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list > > commit a031878670ac8fe466859d4c1506bd91ae48678c > Author: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > Date: Sun Oct 24 19:40:33 2010 +0200 > > fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes > > commit 63997e98a3be68d7cec806d22bf9b02b2e1daabb > Author: Al Viro <[email protected]> > Date: Mon Oct 25 20:49:35 2010 -0400 > > split invalidate_inodes() > > Are you working on or have you submitted a backport yet?
Wait, all of these are in the .37 release, so for .37-stable we should be fine, right? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
