[Bug 43354] New: Corruption on a small loopback ext4 file system with Linux 3.4

[Bug 43354] New: Corruption on a small loopback ext4 file system with Linux 3.4

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           Summary: Corruption on a small loopback ext4 file system with
                    Linux 3.4
           Product: File System
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.4.1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: high
          Priority: P1
         Component: ext4
        AssignedTo: fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
        ReportedBy: alecm@gmx.com
        Regression: Yes


With Linux 3.4, I am getting major corruption on a loopback ext4 filesystem:
parts of files are randomly inserted into other files.

Below are steps to reproduce - I've been able to reproduce this on two
different systems. Both have ext4 root, using a plain kernel.org 3.4.1 kernel.
The problem does not reproduce when switching back to Linux 3.3.6.

If you need any additional info, I'll be happy to provide it.

# uname -r
3.4.1
# dd if=/dev/zero of=tree.ext4 bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 0.589387 s, 911 MB/s
# mkfs.ext4 -T small -N 200000 tree.ext4
mke2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
tree.ext4 is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Discarding device blocks: done                            
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
200192 inodes, 524288 blocks
26214 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67633152
64 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
3128 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
    8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 

# mkdir tree
# mount -o loop tree.ext4 tree
# tar xaf portage-20120607.tar.xz -C tree
# find tree -type f -exec sha1sum {} \; > checksums
# umount tree
# sync
# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches  # important! everything will seem fine
otherwise
# fsck.ext4 -f tree.ext4
e2fsck 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
tree.ext4: 183722/200192 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 402575/524288 blocks
# mount -o loop tree.ext4 tree
# sha1sum --check --quiet checksums
tree/portage/net-firewall/conntrack-tools/ChangeLog: FAILED
tree/portage/net-firewall/conntrack-tools/files/conntrackd.initd-r1: FAILED
tree/portage/net-firewall/nufw/ChangeLog: FAILED
...

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--- Comment #1 from Alec Moskvin <alecm@gmx.com>  2012-06-08 04:18:27 ---
Created an attachment (id=73536)
 --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=73536)
tree.ext4.xz - resulting fs image

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--- Comment #2 from Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>  2012-06-08 04:58:37 ---
Does it go any better w/ a 4k fs block size?  (-b 4096?)

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--- Comment #3 from Alec Moskvin <alecm@gmx.com>  2012-06-08 13:44:13 ---
Yes, it seems to work fine with the 4k block size.
mkfs.ext4 -T small -N 200000 -b 4096 tree.ext4

(Of course, I had to also double the image size because otherwise the data
won't fit, but the size does not have an effect - the above is reproducible
with a 1G image as well.)

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--- Comment #4 from Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>  2012-06-08 17:46:39 ---
Hm, wait - drop caches _after_ unmount is required?  Ok that's even weirder
(and scarier - especially since it's after a sync)

And - on further testing, ext2 & ext3 fail too.  Yikes.

It also seems to happen only on loopback; a real device is fine.

And, loopback fails whether it's hosted on ext4 or xfs.  So something generic
broke here...

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--- Comment #5 from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>  2012-06-14 21:48:41 ---
Hmm, I'm not able to reproduce with 3.5-rc1. Can you?

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--- Comment #6 from Alec Moskvin <alecm@gmx.com>  2012-07-28 14:33:19 ---
I can't reproduce with 3.5 either.

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--- Comment #7 from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>  2012-08-14 15:28:24 ---
Ok, thanks for verification. I'll close this bug then.

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