From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Ralf Liebenow <ralf@theco.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Kernel 2.6.27.7 oopses
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:37:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090201003744.GB24173@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130222359.GB32142@theco.de>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:23:59PM +0100, Ralf Liebenow wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I heavily use XFS for an incremental backup server (by using rsync --link-dest option
> to create hardlinks to unchanged files), and therefore have about 10 million files
> on my TB Harddisk. To remove old versions nightly an "rm -rf" will remove a million
> hardlinks/files every night.
>
> After a while I had regular oopses and so I updated the system to make sure its
> on a current version.
>
> It is now a SuSE 11.1 64Bit with SuSE's Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
What kernel did you originally see this problem on?
> <4>Call Trace:
> <4> [<ffffffff8023219a>] complete+0x38/0x4b
> <4> [<ffffffffa00f5316>] xfs_iflush+0x73/0x2ab [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffffa010a7a2>] xfs_finish_reclaim+0x12a/0x168 [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffffa010a871>] xfs_finish_reclaim_all+0x91/0xcb [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffffa010925c>] xfs_syncsub+0x50/0x22b [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffffa0118a3a>] xfs_sync_worker+0x17/0x36 [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffffa01189d4>] xfssyncd+0x15d/0x1ac [xfs]
> <4> [<ffffffff8025434d>] kthread+0x47/0x73
> <4> [<ffffffff8020d7b9>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
That may be a use after free. I know lachlan fixed a few in this
area, but I'm not sure what release those fixeѕ ended up in....
> What do you recommend ? Has this bug already been addressed within the
> hundrets of fixes I've seen on the mailing list ? Shall I try a stock 2.6.28
> kernel ?
Try the lastest 2.6.28.x stable kernel (*not* the straight 2.6.28 release
as there's a directory traversal bug that is fixed in 2.6.28.1) and
see if the problem persists.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 22:23 XFS Kernel 2.6.27.7 oopses Ralf Liebenow
2009-02-01 0:37 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2009-02-05 5:38 ` Ralf Liebenow
2009-02-10 9:50 ` Dave Chinner
2009-02-10 19:41 ` Ralf Liebenow
2009-02-17 12:33 ` Ralf Liebenow
2009-02-10 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
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