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From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jdike@addtoit.com" <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	"user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"janjaap@bos.nl" <janjaap@bos.nl>,
	"geert@linux-m68k.org" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"martin.petersen@oracle.com" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"adobriyan@gmail.com" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	"syzop@vulnscan.org" <syzop@vulnscan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 15:51:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004195152.GA31583@foursquare.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAA02D0.7040901@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:37:36PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, sorry about chiming in later.  I was off last week.

No problem, I'm eager to test patches to fix this.


> I think we're on the right track.  The problem with Jens' patch was
> that it didn't consider the fact that blk_end_request() now internally
> updates the current position of the request, so if restart happens
> after some of part of the request is complete it will end up adding
> the offsets multiple times.  I think slightly modifying it to track
> the current position instead of offset should do it.  Chris, can you
> please try the following patch and see whether the problem goes away?

Unfortunately, this patch does not fix it for me.  I applied your patch
to kernel 2.6.35.5, and got the usual error:

EXT3-fs error (device ubda): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 566188

Lots of them, actually.

- Chris



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28 21:47 [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption Richard Weinberger
2010-09-28 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-28 22:13   ` Richard Weinberger
2010-09-28 22:52     ` Chris Frey
2010-09-28 23:10       ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-29  0:48         ` Janjaap Bos
2010-09-29  1:29         ` Chris Frey
2010-09-29  5:21           ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-29  6:34             ` Chris Frey
2010-10-04 16:37               ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-04 19:51                 ` Chris Frey [this message]
2010-10-05  8:23                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-05 20:31                     ` Chris Frey
2010-10-07  7:58                       ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-07 20:23                         ` Chris Frey
2010-10-14 13:14                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-14 14:20                             ` richard -rw- weinberger
2010-10-14 18:03                               ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-14 21:24                                 ` Richard Weinberger
2010-10-15  4:47                             ` Chris Frey
2010-10-02 17:27             ` richard -rw- weinberger
2010-09-29  3:30     ` Chris Frey

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