[Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

--- Comment #268 from Marc Burkhardt (marc@osknowledge.org) ---
(In reply to Rainer Fiebig from comment #263)
> (In reply to Guenter Roeck from comment #240)
> > As mentioned earlier, I only ever saw the problem on two of four systems
> > (see #57), all running the same kernel and the same version of Ubuntu. The
> > only differences are mainboard, CPU, and attached drive types.
> > 
> > I don't think we know for sure what it takes to trigger the problem. We
> have
> > seen various guesses, from gcc version to l1tf mitigation to CPU type,
> > broken hard drives, and whatnot. At this time evidence points to the block
> > subsystem, with bisect pointing to a commit which relies on the state of
> the
> > HW queue (empty or not) in conjunction with the 'none' io scheduler. This
> > may suggest that drive speed and access timing may be involved. That guess
> > may of course be just as wrong as all the others.
> > 
> > Let's just hope that Jens will be able to track down and fix the problem.
> > Then we may be able to get a better idea what it actually takes to trigger
> > it.
> 
> It would indeed be nice to get a short summary *here* of what happened and
> why, once the dust has settled.
> 
> It would also be interesting to know why all the testing in the run-up to
> 4.19 didn't catch it, including rc-kernels. It's imo for instance unlikely
> that everybody just tested with CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT=n.

As mentioned earlier:

it would be nice to have a definitive list of ciscumstances that are likely to
have the bug triggered so people can check if they are probably affected
because the _ran_ their systems with these setting and possibly have garbage on
their disks now...

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