Re: BUG at drivers/md/kcopyd.c:146

[Juergen Kreileder]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> (restored Juergen's cc)

[The cc list was correct actually, I had set a Mail-Followup-To header.]

> Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:19:51PM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:

[...]

>> I found several bugs in the snapshot code when I reviewed it,
>> including (thankfully hard-to-trigger) silent data corruption.
>>
>> Patches went into 2.6.17-rc1.  [There's one unfinished patch
>> outstanding for a theoretical race that I've only been able to
>> reproduce under artificial conditions.]
>>
>>> kernel BUG at drivers/md/kcopyd.c:146!
>>
>> Probably needs this patch (12th March):
>>
>> dm snapshot: fix kcopyd destructor
>>
>
> Thanks, I've appended a copy here.
>
> Juergen, can you please test this?

Works fine so far but it's too early to call it fixed.
I'll let it run over the weekend and report back.


        Juergen

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/
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