linux-kernel - Re: [Bug] Memory allocation errors and system crashing due to buggy disk cache/inode allocations by ntfs3 kernel module.

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Message-ID: <d9ae2341-b385-45f4-9359-550d1118efb7@leemhuis.info>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:12:12 +0200
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To: craftfever@...amail.com, Ntfs3 <ntfs3@...ts.linux.dev>,
 Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>
Cc: Almaz Alexandrovich <almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug] Memory allocation errors and system crashing due to buggy
 disk cache/inode allocations by ntfs3 kernel module.

On 10/4/25 13:03, craftfever@...amail.com wrote:
> 
> Oct 4, 2025, 11:55 by craftfever@...amail.com:
> 
>> I'm expecting serious bug when writing large amount of files to
>> NTFS hard drive, shortly after memory allocation errors and system
>> crash occurs/ Firstly, I thought, than this is bug in linux kernel
>> itself, somewhat disk cache allocation error, but when I tested
>> same operations on ext4 drive or using NTFS-3G module, bug is not
>> present.
>> 
> To reproduce a bug, try cloning two big Git repositories to an
> external NTFS drive mounted with ntfs3 module.
Thx for the report.

What kernel version are your using?

You CCed the regression list, so I assume this used to work, which leads
to two more questions: What was the last version where this works? Could
you bisect?

Ciao, Thorsten