linux-ext4 - Re: kernel bug at fs/ext4/resize.c:409

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Message-ID: <20140203185633.GA22856@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:56:33 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel bug at fs/ext4/resize.c:409

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 01:26:34PM -0500, Jon Bernard wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> A coworker is seeing the following bug when attempting to resize a root
> volume (during init by calling resizefs) from 1GB to the size of the
> underlying partition size of 20GB.
> 
> If the partition size is changed (to i.e. 10GB), the bug seems to not
> trigger.  I have access to this machine, if there are any experiments
> that would provide more useful information - please let me know.

Here are three questions to start:

1)  What kernel version was this oops coming from?

2)  Could you please send me the output of dumpe2fs of the file system?

3)  Can you reproduce the problem?

						- Ted
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