[Linux-cachefs] FSCache BUG in 3.9.9 ?

[David Howells]

Clusters GmbH <info at clusters.de> wrote:

> I likely hit a bug in fscache using kernel 3.9.9. The problem occurs on a
> heavy loaded virtual machine after running for a while and is not manually
> reproducable. Everything works fine using kernel 3.4.6, though I can't tell
> when in between the problem was introduced. Thank you for you help!
> 
> FS-Cache: Assertion failed
> 3 == 5 is false
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:419!

Hopefully, this is the bug fixed in 3.10 by:

	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1bb4b7f98f361132ea322834515334d95b93c184

This is one of a series of patches so you very likely can't apply it to 3.9.9
by itself.

David