linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 metadata corruption bug?

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2014 11:42:39 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@...jhu.edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, admins@....jhu.edu
Subject: Re: ext4 metadata corruption bug?

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:25:03PM -0400, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote:
> Here's another kernel report, this time from /dev/sda1, which is a QEMU-IDE
> view of a local LVM volume and is only 4060864 blocks big, so it falls into
> neither the "Ceph's fault" nor "8TB is special" bins:
> 
> [922646.672586] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:756: group 17, 24652 clusters in bitmap, 24651 in gd; block bitmap corrupt.

So this is a different report from the ones where we see this error:

[817576.492468] EXT4-fs error (device vdd): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa:3729: group 59035, free 14, pa_free 12

Have you seen any more of these errors?

> [922646.712017] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> [922646.712017] IP: [<ffffffffa014a7cc>] __ext4_error_inode+0x2c/0x150 [ext4]

FYI, this BUG (which can happens after certain jbd2 errors, which in
your case happened after the journal was aborted) is fixed with commit
66a4cb187b9 which will be in v3.15.

	    	  				- Ted

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