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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: poester <poester@internetbrands.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Phil O <kernel@linuxace.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.1.56
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:49:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023101229-sash-kilogram-9a46@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231012165439.137237-2-kernel@linuxace.com>

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 09:54:40AM -0700, poester wrote:
> Since rolling out 6.1.56 we have been experiencing file corruption
> over NFSv3.  We bisected it down to
> 
>  f16fd0b11f0f NFS: Fix error handling for O_DIRECT write scheduling
> 
> But that doesn't cleanly revert so we ended up reverting all NFS
> changes from 6.1.56 and the corruption no longer occurs.  Namely:
> 
>  edd1f0614510 NFS: More fixes for nfs_direct_write_reschedule_io()
>  d4729af1c73c NFS: Use the correct commit info in nfs_join_page_group()
>  1f49386d6779 NFS: More O_DIRECT accounting fixes for error paths
>  4d98038e5bd9 NFS: Fix O_DIRECT locking issues
>  f16fd0b11f0f NFS: Fix error handling for O_DIRECT write scheduling
> 
> The test case is fairly easily reproduced for us:
> 
>  dd if=testfile of=testfile2 oflag=direct; md5sum testfile*
> 
> shows a different md5sum between the two files on 6.1.56+ kernels.
> Interestingly, on 6.5.7 this problem does not occur even though it
> contains the same O_DIRECT patch as f16fd0b11f0f.
> 
> We opened a bugzilla on this:
> 
>  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217999
> 
> But this seems like a critical issue to us which should likely be
> addressed in 6.1.58.

I don't touch bugzilla, but I'll go revert these now and push out a -rc
release with the reverts as you aren't the only one who has reported
this and it would be good to get it resolved.

thanks!

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2023-10-12 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-06 12:59 Linux 6.1.56 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-06 12:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-12 16:54 ` poester
2023-10-12 17:49   ` Greg KH [this message]

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