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SubjectRe: EXT4 regression caused 4eec7
On 5/13/13 12:01 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 13-05-13 11:34:12, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 5/12/13 4:01 AM, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>>> In fact '4eec70' are vexing because I have reviewed and tested this patch before
>>> it was marked as Review-by, but missed the bug. This is because xfstests
>>> was executed manually logs was full of warnings but tainted flag was not
>>> checked at the end.
>>
>> Can you elaborate on this? What was logged, and is it something we could
>> try to pick up post-test in xfstests?
> Generally I think it might be useful if xfstests would fail / warn if
> kernel became tainted during the test (e.g. due to WARN_ON or oops, or
> something like that). It should be even relatively easy to implement
> (just compare /proc/sys/kernel/tainted before and after each test).
>
> Honza
>

Ah, right. That should be easy, I'll see if I can cook that up.

Thanks,
-Eric


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