linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc: reiserfs_delete

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Date:	Sat, 9 May 2009 14:01:52 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc: reiserfs_delete_xattrs log spam (bug 13122)

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On  9 May, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > I just switched from 2.6.29.1 to 2.6.30-rc5, and I'm getting the same as 
> > the reporter of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13122 alias
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123990989515105, i.e. repetitions of
> >  >>>
> > May  9 14:27:22 stein REISERFS warning (device sda1): jdm-20004 
> > reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
> > May  9 14:27:22 stein
> > <<<
> > 
> > This happens in irregular intervals, but a lot of times --- presumably 
> > when certain files are accessed.  I'm on a recently set-up Gentoo 
> > machine.  I created its root filesystem using the Gentoo x86-64 minimal 
> > boot CD; my guess is that the kernel of the boot CD had 
> > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR enabled.  All kernels which I used since then 
> > have it disabled:  2.6.27-gentoo-r8, 2.6.29.1, now 2.6.30-rc5.
> 
> PS:  Also, the following came up at this (= first) boot of 2.6.30-rc, as
> a warm reboot from 2.6.29.1. I have no idea whether it's connected to
> the issue.

That WARN_ON() is fixed in the patches in VFS queue; should be gone in
-next and I'm going to push a bunch of fixes to Linus today, this one
among them.

The first one you've reported is a different story.  Could you try to
bisect it?
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