Re: inotify fixes in stable

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I was hoping that the fixes for bug 7785 "BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172
> set_dentry_child_flags()" could be added to the stable releases. I'm
> seeing these quite frequently at customer installations.

In the future, stable stuff should be sent to the stable@xxxxxxxxxx
email address and not directly to me, thanks.

> The relevant commits are d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a and
> 0d71bd5993b630a989d15adc2562a9ffe41cd26d. Hopefully these do not
> depend on other updates. Nick would be the expert on that.

Can you verify that if you apply just those 2 patches to the latest
2.6.24.3 kernel release, it fixes the issues for you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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