Re: memory corruption after "Fix race when checking i_size on directi/o read"

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Sat Feb 08 2014 - 21:10:31 EST


On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 03:45:22PM -0500, bfields wrote:
> I'm getting warnings about corruption of the kmalloc-32 slab on an nfs
> server while running some regression tests.
>
> A bisect lands on 9fe55eea7e4b444bafc42fa0000cc2d1d2847275 "Fix race
> when checking i_size on direct i/o read". Is there any known problem
> here?
>
> It doesn't reproduce immediately and it's possible I could have made a
> mistake on the bisect.

Argh, apologies, yes--I'm able to reproduce the corruption before that
commit. I'll keep looking....

--b.
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