Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/481] 6.1.167-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 10:49:43AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I don't have time to investigate further, but Greg, if you could drop
> > > these three patches, that should address this issue.
> > 
> > All now dropped, thanks!
> 
> Thanks!  Just as another heads up, I decided to run a full regression
> test suite on 6.1.167-rc1 with those three reverts, and there ar still
> some crashes with generic/051 and ext4/039:
> 
> ext4/4k: 711 tests, 1 errors, 83 skipped, 4645 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/1k: 636 tests, 7 failures, 1 errors, 78 skipped, 5612 seconds
>   Errors: ext4/039
> ext4/encrypt: 679 tests, 1 errors, 215 skipped, 3343 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/ext3conv: 706 tests, 1 errors, 85 skipped, 5282 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/adv: 713 tests, 13 failures, 1 errors, 91 skipped, 4944 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/dioread_nolock: 711 tests, 1 failures, 1 errors, 83 skipped, 5518 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/data_journal: 635 tests, 6 failures, 1 errors, 151 skipped, 4105 seconds
>   Errors: ext4/039
> ext4/bigalloc_4k: 604 tests, 1 errors, 79 skipped, 4876 seconds
>   Errors: ext4/039
> ext4/bigalloc_1k: 682 tests, 6 failures, 1 errors, 106 skipped, 5454 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> ext4/dax: 705 tests, 10 failures, 1 errors, 207 skipped, 3249 seconds
>   Errors: generic/051
> 
> I'll start trying to bisect this as I have time today.  Are you going
> to put out another rc and restart the 48 hour testing clock?

No, I've already done a release, I dropped more than just those 3, I
dropped all the dependent ext4 patches.

If you could test the last release and if I should do any reverts there,
please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h