Re: 2.6.13-rc2-almost-rc3, ext3 and memory corruption

[Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>]

Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Hello,
>   I was so happy that 2.6.13-rc3 was released that I tried to grab it,
> and while I was doing that, box said:
> 
> Slab corruption: start=ffff8100005e5bf8, len=96
> Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
> Last user: [<ffffffff801ec42d>](journal_remove_journal_head+0x6d/0xb0)
> 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 01 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b
> Prev obj: start=ffff8100005e5b80, len=96
> Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
> Last user: [<ffffffff801ec42d>](journal_remove_journal_head+0x6d/0xb0)
> 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
> 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
> Next obj: start=ffff8100005e5c70, len=96
> Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
> Last user: [<ffffffff801ec42d>](journal_remove_journal_head+0x6d/0xb0)
> 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
> 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b

Hello,
   so I've enabled JBD-DEBUG, and unfortunately somebody corrupted inode instead 
of journal head this time :-(  But corruption looks same - somebody wrote 32bit 
value 1 somewhere it should not...  Does anybody have something like 
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC for x86-64?

Slab corruption: start=ffff8100005e7c00, len=976
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<ffffffff801aa690>](destroy_inode+0x30/0x50)
080: 01 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
Prev obj: start=ffff8100005e7818, len=976
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<ffffffff801aa690>](destroy_inode+0x30/0x50)
000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
ppc:~$ uname -a
Linux ppc 2.6.14-rc3-dd72 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 4 21:12:16 CEST 2005 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
ppc:~$

This time I was not doing anything special, just building new kernel & browsing web.
						Thanks,
							Petr Vandrovec

> Box in question has single Athlon64 processor, runs SMP PREEMPT kernel
> with almost all debugging options set (but not CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG).  Box 
> has 2GB of ECC RAM.  Root filesystem is on pata disk connected to the 
> pata port on Promise's 20378 (using sata_promise).  Disk with git repository 
> is plugged to pata port on Via's VT8237.  Kernel's configuration is 
> at http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/vana_at_home_config.txt, dmesg at 
> http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/vana_at_home_dmesg.txt.