Re: BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk()

Badari Pulavarty
2006-09-05T18:05:57Z

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:10 -0400, Will Simoneau wrote:
> Has anyone seen this before? These three traces occured at different times
> today when three new user accounts (and associated quotas) were created. This
> machine is an NFS server which uses quotas on an ext3 fs (dir_index is on).
> Kernel is 2.6.17.11 on an x86 smp w/64G highmem; 4G ram is installed. The
> affected filesystem is on a software raid1 of two hardware raid0 volumes from a
> megaraid card.
>
> BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk()
> <c01c5140> ext3_getblk+0x98/0x2a6 <c03b2806> md_wakeup_thread+0x26/0x2a
> <c01c536d> ext3_bread+0x1f/0x88 <c01cedf9> ext3_quota_read+0x136/0x1ae
> <c018b683> v1_read_dqblk+0x61/0xac <c0188f32> dquot_acquire+0xf6/0x107
> <c01ceaba> ext3_acquire_dquot+0x46/0x68 <c01897d4> dqget+0x155/0x1e7
> <c018a97b> dquot_transfer+0x3e0/0x3e9 <c016fe52> dput+0x23/0x13e
> <c01c7986> ext3_setattr+0xc3/0x240 <c0120f66> current_fs_time+0x52/0x6a
> <c017320e> notify_change+0x2bd/0x30d <c0159246> chown_common+0x9c/0xc5
> <c02a222c> strncpy_from_user+0x3b/0x68 <c0167fe6> do_path_lookup+0xdf/0x266
> <c016841b> __user_walk_fd+0x44/0x5a <c01592b9> sys_chown+0x4a/0x55
> <c015a43c> vfs_write+0xe7/0x13c <c01695d4> sys_mkdir+0x1f/0x23
> <c0102a97> syscall_call+0x7/0xb

I think its a bogus warning.

ext3_getblk() is calling ext3_get_blocks_handle() to map "1" block for
read. But for *some* reason ext3_get_blocks_handle() more than 1 block.
ext3_get_blocks_handle() return "positive #of blocks" is a valid case.
So needs to be fixed.

I did search for callers of ext3_get_blocks_handle() and found that
ext3_readdir() seems to do wrong thing all the time with error check :(
Need to take a closer look..

err = ext3_get_blocks_handle(NULL, inode, blk, 1,
&map_bh, 0, 0);
if (err > 0) { <<<< BAD
page_cache_readahead(sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
&filp->f_ra,
filp,
map_bh.b_blocknr >>
(PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits),
1);
bh = ext3_bread(NULL, inode, blk, 0, &err);
}

Thanks,
Badari