Bug#1026259: SW RAID to JFS intermittent boot fail with NULL pointer dereference
On 4 February 2023 22:28:05 CET, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:31:01AM +0000, RattusRattus wrote:
>> Dear team,
>>
>> - Did I submit to the correct location?
>> - Is there anything additional information that you require?
>
>It is okay, but even better if the issue can be brough upstream. But
>that said, I would not expect really any progress, in fact upstream it
>is discussed if it might be removed in future, cf.
>https://lwn.net/Articles/920259/ .
>
>It seems to be a hard to tackle problem if it's not really
>reproducible and machine dependent. But if reproduces for you quite
>consistently, a bisect between the last known working version and
>kernel in recent bullseye point release which started failing might
>pin point us to the relevant change causing this.
>
>Dave, adding you to CC, this is about report
>https://bugs.debian.org/1026259 in Debian. This was noted with at
>least 5.10.158 based stable kernel in Debian. My understanding is that
>at least 5.10.127 was still fine.
>
>Regards,
>Salvatore
>
I can certainly reproduce the problem repeatedly, perhaps 50% of the time, maybe more.
Will happily bisect versions to see if I can identify if this is a regression or has always been present.
I may have some time available in a weeks time to investigate (half term)
I may be able to automate the process too
Best wishes
/Andy
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