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Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption.

From Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption.
Date 2016-10-14 00:30 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:18:46PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

 > >  > > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21706 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:489 start_transaction+0x40a/0x440 [btrfs]
 > >  > > CPU: 1 PID: 21706 Comm: trinity-c16 Not tainted 4.8.0-think+ #14
 > >  > >  ffffc900019076a8 ffffffffb731ff3c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 > >  > >  ffffc900019076e8 ffffffffb707a6c1 000001e9f5806ce0 ffff8804f74c4d98
 > >  > >  0000000000000801 ffff880501cfa2a8 000000000000008a 000000000000008a
 > >  >
 > >  > This isn't even IO.  Uuughhhh.  We're going to need a fast enough test
 > >  > that we can bisect.
 > >
 > > Progress...
 > > I've found that this combination of syscalls..
 > >
 > > ./trinity -C64 -q -l off -a64 --enable-fds=testfile -c fsync -c fsetxattr -c lremovexattr -c pwritev2
 > >
 > > hits one of these two bugs in a few minutes runtime.
 > >
 > > Just the xattr syscalls + fsync isn't enough, neither is just pwrite + fsync.
 > > Mix them together though, and something goes awry.
 > >
 > 
 > Hasn't triggered here yet.  I'll leave it running though.

With that combo of params I triggered it 3-4 times in a row within minutes.. Then
as soon as I posted, it stopped being so easy to repro.

There's some other variable I haven't figured out yet (maybe how the random way that files
get opened in fds/testfiles.c), but it does seem to point at the xattr changes. 

I'll poke at it some more tomorrow.

	Dave

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Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption. Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> - 2016-10-13 20:20 +0200
  Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption. Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> - 2016-10-14 00:30 +0200
  Re: btrfs bio linked list corruption. Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> - 2016-10-16 02:50 +0200

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