linux-kernel - Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption.

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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:19:04 -0400
From:   Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
 > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:45:08AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > This is from Linus' current tree, with Al's iovec fixups on top.
 > 
 > Those iovec fixups are in the current tree...

ah yeah, git quietly dropped my local copy when I rebased so I didn't notice.

 > TBH, I don't see anything
 > in splice-related stuff that could come anywhere near that (short of
 > some general memory corruption having random effects of that sort).
 > 
 > Could you try to bisect that sucker, or is it too hard to reproduce?

Only hit it the once overnight so far. Will see if I can find a better way to
reproduce today.

	Dave