Re: 2.6.23-git18: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory

[Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:59:00PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
> On Wed 24-10-07 14:15:40, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > Seems that we are now getting strange errors mounting an ext2 root
> > filesystem under 2.6.23-git18:
> > 
> >   EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2:
> >   rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
> >   name_len=0
>   Hmm, zero length entry in a root directory. Not nice.
> 
> > This seems to be occuring consistently since 2.6.23-git18.  I have been
> > back and rerun a -git17 job to confirm its not visible at that level.
> > This bug is expressing itself in 2.6.23-rc1 also.
> > 
> > I am suspicious of this commit in the -git17 -> -git18 block:
> > 
> >   commit 89910cccb8fec0c1140d33a743e72a712efd4f05
> >   Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> >   Date:   Sun Oct 21 16:41:40 2007 -0700
> > 
> >       ext2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
> > 
> > /me goes debug this a bit more.
>   Hmm, I'd suspect that too ;) But I swear I actually tested the code ;)
> So what are you using the filesystem for (or do you get the error
> immediately when mounting)? How large is the filesystem?

Its the root filesystem, so thats all she wrote.  The kernel fails to
mount it and the world ends.  Its pretty small in now world terms.

/dev/sda1              17G   10G  6.0G  63% /

-apw