<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi all,</div><br>> >> This patch makes sense to me, I'm not sure if any blocker issue for<br>> >> holding the apply process. If _no_ I would help to merge it:).<br>> ><br>> > See:<br>> ><br>> > <a href="https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/557" target="_blank">https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/557</a><br>> ><br>> > Basically this change hides a kernel bug.<br>> I don't think it is a kernel bug and it is only an non-supported feature<br>> before linux 5.1 when not using ext4 driver for ext2.<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>Cyril hopes to have a reproducer to cover the bug [1]<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </span>(<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">though</span> <div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">you</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">think </span>it a non-support problem), <span class="gmail_default">but that is</span> <span class="gmail_default">responsible</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default">advice</span><span class="gmail_default"> for FileSystem:)</span>.<div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Actually, the worth to say, there already a separate test</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(xfstest/generic/424) for reproducing this problem[2].</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See: <a href="https://github.com/kdave/xfstests/blob/master/tests/generic/424" target="_blank">https://github.com/kdave/xfstests/blob/master/tests/generic/424</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I believe FS QE/Dev will run it for all filesystems regularly.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">So maybe we can safely apply this patch in LTP without</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">adding a duplicated test?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default"></span>[1] <a href="https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4012" target="_blank">https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4012</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">[2] <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93bc420ed41df63">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93bc420ed41df63</a></div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Li Wang<br></div></div></div></div>