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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] xfs: xfs_inactive fails to cleanup symlinks with attributes
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:17:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B0E03B.3010303@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130606161032.753011157@sgi.com>

On 06/06/13 11:10, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> Found this bug testing extended attributes.
>
> # make a big symbolic link that is in the inode core and mostly fills it.
> # CRC enabled filesystem will use a 68 byte smaller link in the test.
>
> ln -s 1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/0123456/a a
>
> # the extended attribute will bump the symbolic link to a remote extent
> # I think only one of these attribute is needed, but they are so fun...
> attr  -Rs 1234567890ad a<  /dev/null
> attr  -Rs 1234567890ae a<  /dev/null
> attr  -Rs 1234567890af a<  /dev/null
>

oops. the following steps are also needed - I took them out because I
thought they were unecessary:

# remove the attributes:
attr  -Rr 1234567890ad a
attr  -Rr 1234567890ae a
attr  -Rr 1234567890af a

now we will assert

> # the following remove will assert a debug kernel:
> #  XFS: Assertion failed: ip->i_d.di_nextents == 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c, line: 2036
>
> rm a
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-06 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-06 16:10 [PATCH 0/1] xfs: xfs_inactive fails to cleanup symlinks with attributes Mark Tinguely
2013-06-06 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/1] xfs: fix the symbolic link assert in xfs_ifree Mark Tinguely
2013-06-07  1:06   ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-07 14:05     ` Mark Tinguely
2013-06-06 19:17 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-06-06 21:13   ` [PATCH 0/1] xfs: xfs_inactive fails to cleanup symlinks with attributes Dave Chinner
2013-06-06 21:29     ` Mark Tinguely
2013-06-06 21:44       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-06 21:51       ` Dave Chinner

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