linux-ext4 - Re: regression in 4.5-rc5

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:19:49 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, guaneryu@...il.com
Subject: Re: regression in 4.5-rc5 - generic/324 failure

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote:
> I'm seeing generic/324 fail consistently when run with xfstest-bld's test
> appliance in the 1k block size test case on x86_64.  This happened first on my
> 4.5-rc5 regression run, and it repeated on -rc6 and -rc7.
> 
> Reverting a commit introduced in 4.5-rc5 inhibits the failure:
> "ext4: don't read blocks from disk after extents being swapped" (bcff24887d00)

Yeah, sorry, I didn't recognize the failure you described on the
phone.  This has been fixed in the ext4 dev tree:

commit 87f9a031af48defee9f34c6aaf06d6f1988c244d
Author: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@...il.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 21 18:38:44 2016 -0500

    ext4: iterate over buffer heads correctly in move_extent_per_page()
    
    In commit bcff24887d00 ("ext4: don't read blocks from disk after extents
    being swapped") bh is not updated correctly in the for loop and wrong
    data has been written to disk. generic/324 catches this on sub-page
    block size ext4.
    
    Fixes: bcff24887d00 ("ext4: don't read blocks from disk after extentsbeing swapped")
    Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@...il.com>
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
    Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

I should have realized this was a 4.5 regression that should have been
pushed to Linus directly.  It's awfully late, and I'm not sure there's
going to be a -rc8, but I'll see if I can get this to Linus this cycle
or not.

						- Ted
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