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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: NVMe: Regression: write zeros corrupts ext4 file system
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:32:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190312013245.GD28841@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311145457.GA10411@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:54:59AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:24:42AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It is observed that ext4 is corrupted easily by running some workloads
> > on QEMU NVMe, such as:
> > 
> > 1) mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1
> > 
> > 2) mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt
> > 
> > 3) cd /mnt; git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > 
> > 4) then the following error message may show up:
> > 
> > [ 1642.271816] EXT4-fs error (device nvme0n1): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:747: group 0, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 32768 vs 23513 free clusters
> > 
> > Or fsck.ext4 will complain after running 'umount /mnt'
> > 
> > The issue disappears by reverting 6e02318eaea53eaafe6 ("nvme: add support for the
> > Write Zeroes command").
> > 
> > QEMU version:
> > 
> > QEMU emulator version 2.10.2(qemu-2.10.2-1.fc27)
> > Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
> 
> In QEMU, blk_aio_pwrite_zeroes() takes bytes, but the nvme controller
> thought it was blocks. Oops, that went by unnoticed till now!
> 
> We should fix QEMU (patch below). Question is, should we quirk driver 
> for older versions too?

I think so, users may never upgrade their QEMU.

Thanks,
Ming

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-11  2:24 NVMe: Regression: write zeros corrupts ext4 file system Ming Lei
2019-03-11  7:54 ` Dongli Zhang
2019-03-11 10:16   ` Ming Lei
2019-03-11 14:54 ` Keith Busch
2019-03-11 15:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-12  1:32   ` Ming Lei [this message]

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