linux-ext4 - [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:26:32 GMT
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354

Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> changed:

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--- Comment #153 from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>  2009-10-30 10:26:23 ---
Hi Linus, Eric,

There are two changes that went in after 2.6.31 that i am doubtful.

0d34ec62e18984ac9476208660372306ef54e70d

That changes the ext4_file_write to not do a journal commit if inode doesn't
have dirty flag set. Jan Kara actually found other issues with the ext4 sync
code path and have posted a patch here( MID
1256647729-29834-1-git-send-email-jack@...e.cz )
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/16126. But that should
not result in multiple claimed blocks. 

487caeef9fc08c0565e082c40a8aaf58dad92bbb
The changes allowed to release i_data_sem during truncate. That implies we
could allow block allocation while we are doing truncate. I did a patch to drop
prealloc space once we reacquire i_data_sem. Posted in comment 123 of this bug.
But that didn't fix the corruption.

So may be we want to test backing out 487caeef9fc08c0565e082c40a8aaf58dad92bbb
and applying patch at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/16126 and see if we are
able to reproduce.

-aneesh

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