Bug#668687: linux-image-3.3.0-trunk-amd64: Kernel oops when writing to sparse file on ocfs2 filesystem.

[Samson Yeung <samson.yeung@oracle.com>]

Package: linux-image-3.3.0-trunk-amd64
Version: 3.3-1~experimental.1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch


Writing to a sparse file on a single-node ocfs2 mount causes an oops.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/ocfs2/foo bs=1 count=0 seek=10G
yes | mkfs.ext3 /ocfs2/foo

Patch is at:
  http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2012-January/008464.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash