linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:3205 (stable 3.5.3)

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:46:48 +0200
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:3205 (stable 3.5.3)

Hello,

Am 27.09.2012 17:12, schrieb Jan Kara:
>    Just some thoughts about your oops:
> The assertion which fails is:
> BUG_ON(!list_empty(&bh->b_assoc_buffers));
>
> Now b_assoc_buffers isn't used very much. In particular ext4 which you seem
> to be using doesn't use this list at all (except when mounted in nojournal
> mode but that doesn't seem to be your case). That would point rather
> strongly at a memory corruption issue.
>
> So if you can reproduce the oops, it might be interesting to print
> bh->b_assoc_buffers.next and &bh->b_assoc_buffers.next if the list is found
> to be non-empty.

Hmm, a loose pointer would explain it all too. Especially the cases when 
I just have seen wrong content in the archive without having any oops. I 
try to reproduce it with

pr_info("AHO: %p %p\n", bh->b_assoc_buffers.next, 
&bh->b_assoc_buffers.next);

after the BUG_ON().

Thanks for the hint. I wasn't already that far to know that 
b_assoc_buffers isn't used that much.

Regards,

Alexander
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