Re: Regression in next with apps hanging with vm_fault_t

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi all,

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:17:45 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:51 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm seeing a regression with Linux next with commit 7b6ec2ae877a
> > ("fs: convert return type int to vm_fault_t") where apps can just
> > hang.
> >
> > The reproducable test case I have is to remove a distro package
> > and then add it back where adding the package back just hangs and
> > the package file seems corrupted.
> >
> > This is with ext4 rootfs on MMC, NFSroot does not have this
> > issue. Any ideas?  
> 
> This is a bad commit and there is a plan to remove it from all the tree.
> Not sure why it is still showing in linux-next tree.

OK, I have removed that commit (and the following fix patch) from
linux-next today (in case Andrew doesn't get around to it).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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