[Devel] Re: jbd lost fix?

[Kirill Korotaev]

Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
> On Mon 02-07-07 18:16:09, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 
>>it looks like the following fix:
>>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=43c3e6f5abdf6acac9b90c86bf03f995bf7d3d92
>>
>>was lost after resurrecting of the spliced checkpointing list in this patch:
>>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=78ce89c92bc6eaf5933b5664bff64253a7103bd7;hp=cdaad343b561cdeb38b0578bb038
>>
>>Can you please confirm that?
> 
>   Sorry for a bit late reply but I was on holiday for a week. Yes, it seems
> like that fix got lost. At least 2.6.22-rc5 still has a wrong test on line
> 890 in commit.c. Thanks for notification, I'll resend it.
>   BTW: How have you found this out?

One of OpenVZ users had an oops at journal_clean_one_cp_list+0x32/0x70
http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605

which led us to the lost fix.
Since the patch existed before I didn't dare to resend it from OVZ name :)

Thanks,
Kirill