linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-git18: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:10:58 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <andyw@...ibm.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <andyw@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-git18: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 24-10-07 18:07:29, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:03:03PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > 
> > > e2image -r /dev/sda1 - | gzip -dc root-image.gz
> > 
> > This thing is 27MB, I'll try and find some space to hold it and
> > let you know where it is offlist.
>   The filesystem mounts just fine on my test machine under latest
> kernel tree from git. So, do you still see the problem? What is your
> hardware setup? Anything unusual I should be aware of?
>   It seems (from the error message) as if we simply read a page full
> of zeros from the root directory so it may be also a problem somewhere
> else...

Yes this works with the latest git tree.  This problem only was visible
with 2.6.24-rc1, -git1 onwards was ok.

-apw
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/