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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shared/289 failures on metadata_csum, e2fsprogs master branch
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:45:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140311204549.GB31864@birch.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140311193819.GA2274@wallace>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:38:19PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Xfstest shared/289 fails when run on an ext4 test filesystem created with
> the metadata_csum and 64bit options and using executables from the latest
> e2fsprogs master branch (46d2a26683).  I've seen the problem on kernel
> versions from 3.14-rc1 through 3.14-rc6, but I think this is an e2fsprogs
> regression rather than a kernel problem.
> 
> The failing portion of shared/289 can be boiled down to:
> 
> mkfs.ext4 -O metadata_csum,64bit /dev/vdc
> dumpe2fs -h /dev/vdc 2>/dev/null | awk '/Free blocks:/{print $3}'
> 
> The problem (in my test config) is that the reported free block value is
> 184684916231 (much larger than my test device) where the reported block
> count is 1382400 (much saner).
> 
> The bug appears to have been introduced between two merges of the maint
> branch: 72958b6670 (good - 10 Jan) and f0996c12d5 (bad - 30 Jan).  Some
> weeks ago, I thought I'd bisected the problem to a specific patch
> (8e44eb64bb - libext2fs: mark group data blocks when loading block bitmap),
> which seemed like a plausible candidate.  However, I find I can't
> reproduce the bisection now, as e2fsprogs doesn't want to support the
> metadata_csum, 64bit options during bisection in the master branch (that'll
> teach me for not mentioning this earlier... :-) ).

This is fixed by patch #17 ("libext2fs: fix 64bit overflow in
ext2fs_block_alloc_stats_range") in the patchbomb I sent out earlier today.

--D
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11 19:38 shared/289 failures on metadata_csum, e2fsprogs master branch Eric Whitney
2014-03-11 20:45 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2014-03-11 21:20   ` Eric Whitney

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