RE: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops) -- MAIL LOOP?

2000-10-17 Thread Sudhindra Herle
Sorry for this off-topic post, but, I'm getting this email way too many times. I now have 5 copies of the email from Alexander Viro (in response to Linus). Is anyone else facing the same problem? Is vger messed up again? Cheers, -Sudhi. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Roger Larsson
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > > Trace; c014efde > > > Trace; c014f240 > > > Trace; c014f6af > > > Trace; c021e87e > > Huh? > > > Trace; c01523af > > > > The rest of trace is OK, but WTF is net/unix/*.c code is doing here? > > The traces always

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > Trace; c014efde > > Trace; c014f240 > > Trace; c014f6af > > Trace; c021e87e > Huh? > > Trace; c01523af > > The rest of trace is OK, but WTF is net/unix/*.c code is doing here? The traces always (or almost always) have crud in them - it's n

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alexander Viro wrote: > > > See another posting. More or less the same analysis. I don't see > where it came from and it smells funny - looks like a loss of ->b_count > _or_ an active page returned by alloc_page() (to grow_buffers()). I > wouldn't exclude the latter, BTW, but then I'm st

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > and the above is a perfectly fine backtrace, makes tons of sense, looks > good. Except the strange beast between ext2_create() and ext2_new_inode(). > HOWEVER. What doesn't make any sense at all is that bread() calls getblk() > to find the buffer,

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Kernel bug at ll_rw_blk.c: 713! unmapped buffer got to the ll_rw_block() > Trace; c0184d53 > Trace; c012fa31 What? OK, so we got a unmapped bh hashed at some point. Either it was inserted into hash while it was unmapped or it had been hashe

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > It seems that we were all wrong in assuming that ext2 was fixed > wrt. filesystem corruption. test10pre3 once again has the potential > to eat files (not sure about earlier versions). > > I finally managed to capture an oops (by hand), so be