[REGRESSION][Raring] LP:1089818 Added To Kernel Team Hot List

[Tim Gardner]

On 12/13/2012 09:52 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 12:19 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've added the following bug to the Kernel Team Hot List:
>> LP:1089818[0].
>>
>>     * Regression in Raring found by QA using udisks2 tests.
>>     * Can be reproduced on real iron and in kvm, on i386 and amd64.
>>     * Simple test case available.
>>
>> Since there is an easy test case, I'll see if I can reproduce.  If I
>> can, I'll perform a kernel bisect.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1089818
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was able to reproduce this bug on my machine.  I performed a bisect
> which pointed to the following commit as the cause of the regression:
>     commit 5db44863b6ebbb400c5e61d56ebe8f21ef48b1bd
>     Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
>     Date:   Tue Sep 18 12:19:32 2012 -0400
> 
> I created a Raring test kernel with this commit reverted, which fixed
> the bug.  I requested that the original bug reporter test my kernel and
> report back.
> 
> The commit is fairly large, I'm not sure if a revert will be the way to
> go.  If the bug reporter reports back that my test kernel fixes the bug,
> I will send mail to the bug author and upstream to request feedback.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 

In light of test results at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1089818/comments/11
I've reverted this commit until you get some direction from upstream.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com