Re: riscv32 EXT4 splat, 6.8 regression?

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Fri Apr 12 2024 - 11:44:26 EST


On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 04:57:08PM +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been looking at an EXT4 splat on riscv32, that LKFT found [1]:

I'm getting a "page not found" for [1]?

> This was not present in 6.7. Bisection wasn't really helpful (to me at
> least); I got it down to commit c604110e662a ("Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.misc'
> of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs"), and when I
> revert the commits in the vfs merge the splat went away, but I *really*
> struggle to see how those are related...

It sounds like you have a reliable repro; is it something that can be
streamlined into a simple test program? If so, is it something that
can be reproduced on other architectures? And could you make it
available?

Thanks,

- Ted