linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during
 apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing



On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, David Chinner wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:47:38AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>> Including the XFS mailing list in here too because it may be an XFS bug
>>> looking at the call trace.
>>>
>>> System: Debian Testing
>>> Kernel: 2.6.20
>>> Config: Attached
>>>
>>> I was running apt-get dist-upgrade as I always do to get the latest
>>> packages upgraded and the kernel OOPS'd when it was upgrading 'tzdata' and
>>> the process went into D-state and I had to reboot.
>>>
>>> The config file is from 2.6.20 but it had been moved to a 2.6.22 directory
>>> for an upgrade, but all of the options have been left unchanged.
>>>
>>> Here is the *OOPS I captured via dmesg before I rebooted:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Also,
>>
>> Not sure if this helps but when this happened, any file that was open()
>> for read/write seem to have also been corrupted..
>
> Is that all files, or just ones that were being changed?
It is the only one I noticed because another program depended upon it 
being not-corrupt.

>
>> $ /usr/sbin/xfs_bmap -v myconfig.txt.orig
>> myconfig.txt.orig:
>>  EXT: FILE-OFFSET      BLOCK-RANGE        AG AG-OFFSET        TOTAL
>>    0: [0..7]:          64601112..64601119 14 (52040..52047)       8
>> $ /usr/sbin/xfs_bmap -v myconfig.txt
>> myconfig.txt:
>>  EXT: FILE-OFFSET      BLOCK-RANGE        AG AG-OFFSET        TOTAL
>>    0: [0..7]:          64625720..64625727 14 (76648..76655)       8
>> $ md5sum myconfig*
>> db8c50ca2c86d2e757ecef1d6b3fcc69  myconfig.txt
>> 09fb630623b3ae614511cef4c7a21063  myconfig.txt.orig
>> $ file myconfig.txt myconfig.txt.orig
>> myconfig.txt:      ASCII text
>> myconfig.txt.orig: data
>> $
>>
>> $ strings -a myconfig.txt.orig
>> $
>>
>> $ od -c myconfig.txt.orig
>> 0000000  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 *
>> 0003500  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
>> 0003506
>>
>> Seems like it was NULL'd out?
>
> A single block of zeros - its possible that the crash occurred between
> the allocation transaction and the data write - the allocation gets
> replayed (along with the new file size), but the data write does
> not (not journalled). This is one of the rarer "NULL files on crash"
> failure modes fixed in 6.5.22.....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> Principal Engineer
> SGI Australian Software Group
>
>
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