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From: Robert Jacobs <debbtsb06@eamp.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Bug#638158: xfsprogs: Damaged filesystem causes xfs_repair to sometimes (but not always) segfault
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:04:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QvOYe-0005SK-95@eamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822032849.GD3162@dastard>

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:27:05AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 03:59:34PM -0700, Robert Jacobs wrote:
> > > > On Mittwoch, 17. August 2011 Robert Jacobs wrote:
> > > > > I've attached the outputs of xfs_check and three different runs of
> > > > > xfs_repair (with backtrace, when available).
> > > > 
> > > > Can you provide a XFS metadump? That should help devs to reproduce the 
> > > > error. 
> > > 
> > > I've uploaded it to <http://eamp.org/metadumpf.lzma>. It's 9MB but I
> > > have somewhat limited upload quota. I noticed that some filenames
> > > weren't obscured so I obscured them by hand -- if this is a problem,
> > > please tell me. 
> > 
> > The metadump image you have provided does not trigger problems on
> > either 3.1.5 on a current xfs_repair build out of the xfsprogs-dev
> > repository on my machines. Can you restore the image and run
> > xfs_repair on the image and confirm it still crashes?
> 
> I stand corrected - it doesn't crash on x86-64, but does crash on
> i686. I get several different random crashes, so it looks like some
> kind of heap corruption is occurring. Running under valgrind shows
> that the inode extent blkmaps are getting out of bound reads and
> writes. I think the problem is this:

[...]

> As it is, I'd recommend upgrading to x86-64 anyway - XFS on i686
> doesn't receive a lot of developer testing...

Sadly, I can't upgrade to x86-64 because this is a i686 machine that I
have not yet outgrown. Someday soon... 

But thank you very much! I now have a functioning filesystem again.

 - Robert Jacobs

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17  8:22 Bug#638158: xfsprogs: Damaged filesystem causes xfs_repair to sometimes (but not always) segfault Robert Jacobs
2011-08-17 13:18 ` Michael Monnerie
2011-08-21 22:59   ` Robert Jacobs
2011-08-22  1:27     ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-22  3:28       ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-22  7:04         ` Robert Jacobs [this message]

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