[Bug 195561] Suspicious persistent EXT4-fs error: ext4_validate_block_bitmap:395: [Proc] bg 17: block 557056: invalid block bitmap

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Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) ---
Given that the same corruption is happening across different block devices, it
points to something other than the block device going bad.  It might be a bug
in the ext4 code, or some other kernel code that is corrupting the memory
(unlikely), or a userspace process that is clobbering this block.

It would be worthwhile to save a copy of the corrupted bitmap block for further
analysis.  It may be possible to identify what is overwriting that block by
looking at the content.

Collect "dumpe2fs -h" output for the filesystem, so we can see what features
are enabled.  Collect "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/block.dat bs=4k count=1
skip=557056" and then dump it via "od -Ax4 -tx4 -a /tmp/block.dat".

You could also potentially add a tracepoint or run blktrace to see which
processes are writing to this block.  It should only be the jbd2 thread.

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