Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

[Neil Aggarwal]

Hello:

My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it.  I had
to punch the reset button.

Here is what I found in the /var/log/messages file:
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Assertion failure in
journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: kernel BUG at commit.c:535!
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: invalid operand: 0000
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: ipt_LOG ipt_state ip_conntrack
iptable_filter ip_tables autofs eepro100 usb-oh
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: CPU:    1
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: EIP:    0010:[<f88560e4>]    Not tainted
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel:
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: EIP is at journal_commit_transaction [jbd]
0xb04 (2.4.18-3smp)
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: eax: 0000001c   ebx: 0000000a   ecx:
c02eee60   edx: 001830f4
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: esi: f442edf0   edi: f54d0ec0   ebp:
f5fc6000   esp: f5fc7e78
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Process kjournald (pid: 194,
stackpage=f5fc7000)
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Stack: f885ceee 00000217 f54d1000 00000000
00000fd4 f008d02c 00000000 f1cdf540
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel:        f442ef70 00002125 80000000 00000001
0000002c f54d1164 f00b5a40 e061d9e0
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel:        e061d5c0 e061d440 e0c80380 e03c73e0
e0bde320 e0c285c0 e08dcc00 e08dcba0
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Call Trace: [<f885ceee>] .rodata.str1.1
[jbd] 0x26e
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<c0124eb5>] update_process_times [kernel]
0x25
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<c0116049>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt
[kernel] 0xa9
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<c010a77f>] do_IRQ [kernel] 0xdf
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<c010758d>] __switch_to [kernel] 0x3d
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<c0119048>] schedule [kernel] 0x348
May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: [<f88587d6>] kjournald [jbd] 0x136
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel: [<f8858680>] commit_timeout [jbd] 0x0
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel: [<c0107286>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel: [<f88586a0>] kjournald [jbd] 0x0
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel:
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel:
May 19 12:50:17 server1 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5a 59 6a 04 8b 44 24 18 50 56 e8
4b f1 ff ff 8d 47 48

Has anyone seen this?  Is there a way to fix it?

Thanks,
	Neil.
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Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

[Andrew Morton]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it.  I had
> to punch the reset button.
> 
> Here is what I found in the /var/log/messages file:
> May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Assertion failure in
> journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

SMP machine, presumably?

The RH7.3 kernel has a bugfix which has unhappily exposed another
bug: a race with bdflush.

I'm pretty sure that Red Hat's latest errata kernel fixes this.

Patches against 2.4.19-pre8 which fix this are at
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/

-

Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

[Aschwin Marsman - aYniK Software Solutions]

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it.  I had
> to punch the reset button.

It looks like you didn't install the kernel update. Below is a piece of 
my RH 7.3 article:

Kernel panic on SMP systems with ext3 file systems is now fixed. 
A few bugs, including one in ext3 that could cause a kernel panic
on SMP systems, are fixed in a kernel errata.
If you experienced the filesystem panic, you are recommended to
check filesystem consistency.  This bug will show up as one of
"kernel BUG at journal.c:406" or "kernel BUG at commit.c:535"
(The check is done in two places in the source code, and either
of them might show up.)
To force the filesystem check, log in as root, run
touch /forcefsck
and then reboot the system.  It will check all the filesystems
after rebooting.  This needs to be done only once after you
experience the panic.  

The whole article can be found at:
http://www.aynik.com/articles/20020507.1.php

> Has anyone seen this?  Is there a way to fix it?

The update should solve your problem.

> Thanks,
> 	Neil.
 
Kind regards,
 
Aschwin Marsman
 
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Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:18:25PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Has anyone seen this?  Is there a way to fix it?

The 2.4.19-4 kernel was released to fix exactly this problem, iirc.

		-ben