4.11.0-rc1 boot resulted in WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 1722 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 .sysfs_warn_dup+0x78/0xb0

[Abdul Haleem]

On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 15:46 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 03/09/2017 05:59 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> > cc linux-block
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 04:20:06PM +0530, Abdul Haleem wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 08:17 -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:01:04PM +0530, Abdul Haleem wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Today's mainline (4.11.0-rc1) booted with warnings on Power7 LPAR.
> >>>>
> >>>> Issue is not reproducible all the time.
> 
> Is that still the case with -git as of yesterday? Check that you
> have this merge:
> 
> 34bbce9e344b47e8871273409632f525973afad4
> 
> in your tree.
> 

Thanks for pointing out, with the below merge commit warnings disappear.

commit 34bbce9e344b47e8871273409632f525973afad4
Merge: bb61ce5 672a2c8
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 9 15:53:25 2017 -0800

    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block


Thanks for the fix !

Reported-by & Tested-by : Abdul Haleem <abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre