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Message-ID: <878vajq1g6.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:55:37 +0000
From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@...-landscheidt.de>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird filesystem corruption from wayland / radeon / chromium
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Shortly after starting Chrome, the messages reappeared
>> again:
>> | Nov 2 15:15:48 passepartout kernel: [ 1979.196296] EXT4-fs error (device dm-4): ext4_ext_search_left:1304: inode #274258: comm flush-253:4: ix (3666) != EXT_FIRST_INDEX (0) (depth 0)!
>> | Nov 2 15:15:48 passepartout kernel: [ 1979.196306] EXT4-fs (dm-4): delayed block allocation failed for inode 274258 at logical offset 3672 with max blocks 2 with error -5
>> | Nov 2 15:15:48 passepartout kernel: [ 1979.196308] EXT4-fs (dm-4): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
>> | Nov 2 15:15:48 passepartout kernel: [ 1979.196308]
>> And indeed:
>> | [root@...separtout ~]# find ~tim -inum 274258
>> | /home/tim/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/data_3
>> | [root@...separtout ~]#
>> So somehow Chromium/Chrome seems to be able to trigger ker-
>> nel messages indicating a file system error while no actual
>> file system errors seem to occur (very big assumption here
>> because I have no idea how to detect if "data_3" is cor-
>> rupted).
> So it's the same inode every time.
> What does
> # debugfs -R "dump_extents <274258>" /dev/dm-4
> show? (or whatever the appropriate device node path is)
See attachment.
> You might also create an e2image -r fs image so we could
> take a closer look later if needed. You could provide it offline if
> filenames are sensitive (no file data is contained in the image).
> Or you could use the filename obfuscation option.
> But creating the e2image now just to capture the state might
> be good.
> [...]
As this is my home directory and never meant to be pub-
lished :-), I have never assessed whether filenames there
are sensitive, but I don't want to take any chances and will
send you a private link to the obfuscated image per separate
mail. I have taken a non-obfuscated image as well.
The warning is still appearing:
| Nov 2 18:23:42 passepartout kernel: [13252.909399] EXT4-fs error (device dm-4): ext4_ext_search_left:1304: inode #274258: comm flush-253:4: ix (3666) != EXT_FIRST_INDEX (0) (depth 0)!
| Nov 2 18:23:42 passepartout kernel: [13252.909411] EXT4-fs (dm-4): delayed block allocation failed for inode 274258 at logical offset 4076 with max blocks 2 with error -5
| Nov 2 18:23:42 passepartout kernel: [13252.909413] EXT4-fs (dm-4): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
| Nov 2 18:23:42 passepartout kernel: [13252.909413]
Tim
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