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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: "Michael L. Semon" <mlsemon35@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix node forward in xfs_node_toosmall
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:45:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5240B67B.3000305@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5240B3F1.4040305@gmail.com>

On 09/23/13 16:34, Michael L. Semon wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 06:05 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> Commit f5ea1100 cleans up the disk to host conversions for
>> node directory entries, but because a variable is reused in
>> xfs_node_toosmall() the next node is not correctly found.
>> If the original node is small enough (<= 3/8 of the node size),
>> this change may incorrectly cause a node collapse when it should
>> not. That will cause an assert in xfstest generic/319:
>>
>>     Assertion failed: first<= last&&  last<  BBTOB(bp->b_length),
>>     file: /root/newest/xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c, line: 569
>>
>> Keep the original node header to get the correct forward node.
>
> This works for xfstests generic/319 on 32-bit x86.  The xfstests
> run was okay, with a lockdep in the middle and a crash in xfs/300.
> Neither the lockdep nor the crash could reproduced by running
> individual tests one by one.
>
> generic/319 itself fails only because it couldn't find its
> _cleanup routine.  I'm not sure if I'm using v1 or v2 of
> generic/319.
>
> The kernel is set to the commit just before the latest aio-next
> merge, which is causing severe problems here.  xfsprogs was the
> latest production xfsprogs because my copy of xfstests is having
> trouble checking v4 XFS filesystems otherwise.
>
> Will test xfs_node_toosmall patch v2 once I get home.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>

319 v1 had the cleanup and removed in v2 because of feedback.
IMO, it should be there even basically empty.

--Mark.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-20 22:05 [PATCH] xfs: fix node forward in xfs_node_toosmall Mark Tinguely
2013-09-23  0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-23 13:38   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-23 17:18 ` [PATCH] xfs: v2 " Mark Tinguely
2013-09-23 23:48   ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-24 17:35     ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-24 18:59       ` Ben Myers
2013-09-24 21:06       ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-24 21:34         ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-24 23:33           ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-25 18:38             ` Ben Myers
2013-09-25 21:03               ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-25 22:11                 ` Ben Myers
2013-09-23 21:34 ` [PATCH] xfs: " Michael L. Semon
2013-09-23 21:45   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-09  0:09 Ben Myers
2013-10-10 23:02 ` Greg KH

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