linux-ext4 - [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

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Date:   Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:08:14 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

--- Comment #184 from Lei Ming (tom.leiming@...il.com) ---
The commit 2a5cf35cd6c56b2924("block: fix single range discard merge") in linus
tree may address one possible data loss, anyone who saw corruption in scsi
may try this fix and see if it makes a difference.

Given the merged discard request isn't removed from elevator queue, it might
be possible to be submitted to hardware again.(In reply to Theodore Tso from
comment #174)
> One of the reasons why this is bug hunt is so confounding.   While I was
> looking at older reports to try to see if I could find common factors, I
> found Jimmy's dmesg report in #50, and this one looks different from many of
> the others that people have reported.   In this one, the EXT4 errors are
> preceeded by a USB disconnect followed by disk-level errors.    
> 
> This is why it's important that we try very hard to filter out false
> positives and false negative reports.  We have multiple reports which both
> strongly indicate that it's an ext4 bug, and others which strongly indicate
> it is a bug below the file system layer.   And then we have ones like this
> which look like a USB disconnect....
> 
> [52967.931390] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using
> xhci_hcd

IMO it should be a usb device reset instead of disconnect, and reset
is often triggered in SCSI EH.

Thanks,

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