Re: kernel oops: trying to mount a corrupted xfs partition (2.6.16-rc3)

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Thanks kindly Sonny, Chris is this bug known/fixed?

Hans

Sonny Rao wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:52:09PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
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>>Just for kicks, I just hacked this up..
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>>#!/bin/bash
>>wget http://www.digitaldwarf.be/products/mangle.c
>>gcc mangle.c -o mangle
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>>dd if=/dev/zero of=data.img count=70000
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>>while [ 1 ];
>>do
>>        mkfs.xfs -f data.img >/dev/null
>>		./mangle data.img $RANDOM
>>        sudo mount -t xfs data.img mntpt -o loop
>>        sudo ls -R mntpt
>>        sudo umount mntpt
>>done
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>Cool script, you might want to multiply $RANDOM by some factor (I used
>8) to catch some more stuff, I know JFS, for example, doesn't put
>anything in the first 32k, so the first time I ran it on JFS it did
>nothing ;-) 
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>Reiserfs folks, 
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>I also found an infinte loop in Reiserfs on 2.6.15, if the Reiser
>folks are interested, I've gziped the fs and put it here:
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>http://burdell.org/~sonny/data.img.breaks.reiserfs.gz
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>The fs is only 52k when zipped, so its not too bad to download.
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>This is under stock 2.6.15, sorry I can't post dmesg output because I
>end up having to reboot when it happens and don't have time to debug
>right now.  It looks like it's in the journal replay code where it
>keeps trying to grab some block with a ridiculously large offset. 
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>>xfs wins the award for 'noisiest fs in the face of corruption' :-)
>>After a few dozen backtraces from xfs_corruption_error,
>>this fell out...
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>>divide error: 0000 [1] SMP
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>>(The kernel is based on 2.6.16rc4)
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>I see a similar breakage (divide error) on x86 using 2.6.15
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>Sonny
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