** Also affects: bcache-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Crash at creation of bcache if caching size > backing size

Status in “bcache-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I found a bug that crashes the machine if you create a bcache where
  the caching device size is bigger than backing device.

  This case may happen if you create a bcache with a plan to add a
  bigger disk/partition/raid later to it.

  To reproduce it follow this steps:

  start a vm with utopic-amd64-desktop iso, it must have 2 disks, one of
  16G and on of 8G

                apt-get update && apt-get install bcache-tools
                /dev/sda is 16G caching device
                /dev/sdb is 8G backing device

                  make-bcache --write-back --discard -C /dev/sda -B
  /dev/sdb

  now the machine is hanged!

  if you reboot and reinstall bcache-tools
  the bcache device has been created

                ************************************
                bcache-super-show -f /dev/sda:
                ==============================
                sb.magic                ok
                sb.first_sector         8 [match]
                sb.csum                 45C96B38A79275A7 [match]
                sb.version              0 [cache device]

                dev.label               (empty)
                dev.uuid                155ab65e-e74a-4ca8-91da-467ef696db63
                dev.sectors_per_block   1
                dev.sectors_per_bucket  1024
                dev.cache.first_sector  1024
                dev.cache.cache_sectors 33553408
                dev.cache.total_sectors 33554432
                dev.cache.ordered       no
                dev.cache.discard       yes
                dev.cache.pos           0
                dev.cache.replacement   0 [lru]

                  cset.uuid
  bcaa2595-bbc8-43a7-8c44-5d0aca0f3fc8

                *****************************************************
                bcache-super-show /dev/sdb:
                =============================================
                sb.magic                ok
                sb.first_sector         8 [match]
                sb.csum                 F37A1BB08A7F5DE7 [match]
                sb.version              1 [backing device]

                dev.label               (empty)
                dev.uuid                341f1c83-1797-4157-aa9e-524107db5606
                dev.sectors_per_block   1
                dev.sectors_per_bucket  1024
                dev.data.first_sector   16
                dev.data.cache_mode     1 [writeback]
                dev.data.cache_state    0 [detached]

                cset.uuid               bcaa2595-bbc8-43a7-8c44-5d0aca0f3fc8
                *****************************************************

  you can format it:
                mkfs.ext4 /dev/bcache0
                Rejet des blocs de périphérique : complété
                Creating filesystem with 2097150 4k blocks and 524288 inodes
                Filesystem UUID: b99a09de-3a92-4a44-82cd-29f75f8bf0c9
                Superblocs de secours stockés sur les blocs :
                 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

                Allocation des tables de groupe : complété
                Écriture des tables d'i-noeuds : complété
                Création du journal (32768 blocs) : complété
                Écriture des superblocs et de l'information de comptabilité du 
système de
                fichiers :

  restarting the format gave me an other bug (X.org crashing):
                free from cli:
                             total       used       free     shared    buffers  
   cached
                Mem:       1017168     814040     203128     195568      91264  
   513064
                -/+ buffers/cache:     209712     807456
                Swap:            0          0          0

                tail /var/log/syslog:
                [  568.016481] [ 4983]     0  4983     3332      121      11    
    0             0 mdadm
                [  568.016483] [ 5259]     0  5259     6703      300      19    
    0             0 mkfs.ext4
                [  568.016484] Out of memory: Kill process 1947 (Xorg) score 38 
or sacrifice child
                [  568.016485] Killed process 1947 (Xorg) total-vm:313160kB, 
anon-rss:35976kB, file-rss:4232kB
                [  568.707107] systemd-logind[1396]: Failed to start unit 
user@112.service: Unknown unit: user@112.service
                [  568.707113] systemd-logind[1396]: Failed to start user 
service: Unknown unit: user@112.service
                [  568.709876] systemd-logind[1396]: New session c8 of user 
lightdm.
                [  568.709890] systemd-logind[1396]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 
to /run/user/112/X11-display.

  You can unregister the bcache device,but to re-use all disks, you'll need a 
reboot (cf bug 1377142):
                [  830.811150] bcache: cached_dev_detach_finish() Caching 
disabled for sdb
                [  830.949898] bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set 
bcaa2595-bbc8-43a7-8c44-5d0aca0f3fc8 unregistered

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