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SubjectRe: 2.3.42 fs corruption
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I would be interested to know if people who experienced fs corruption with
> the late 2.3.x is able to reproduce after applying this patch on the top
> of 2.3.42:
>
> ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.3/2.3.42aa2.gz
>
> The interesting bit is this:
>
> ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.3/2.3.42aa2/buffer-4.gz
>
> I am now running under heavy fs/dentry load 2.3.42aa2 on alpha and I am
> waiting to reproduce. If you have hints on how to exploit the corruption
> your're welcome ;).

I know an excellent way to create corruption :) Use the loop device
on an fs-in-a-box created with mke2fs -Fqb ${BLKSIZE} ${BOX} ${BLOCKS}.
What corruption happens is dependant on what blocksize the host fs is.
It gets more interesting when you use the same dirctory/file names on
two different fs with two different blocksizes.

Your buffer-4 fixed 99% of the trouble :) Replacing invalidate_buffers()
with destroy_buffers() got rid of the crumbs it was leaving around.

-Mike

<sigh> P.S.
With the attached diag-diff, it almost works perfectly now. (seems
to be a bit racy if you reuse too soon. the hunk that seems likely
to make your facial expression change is why I'm attaching it. I
really don't understand why it has to start with blocksize=PAGE_SIZE
to work right.. almost.. and hope some reader may know why:)
--- drivers/block/loop.c.org Wed Feb 2 07:16:15 2000
+++ drivers/block/loop.c Mon Feb 7 16:39:13 2000
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@
lo->lo_dentry = dget(file->f_dentry);
lo->transfer = NULL;
lo->ioctl = NULL;
+ set_blocksize(MKDEV(MAJOR_NR,lo->lo_number), PAGE_SIZE);
figure_loop_size(lo);

out_putf:
@@ -506,7 +507,8 @@
memset(lo->lo_encrypt_key, 0, LO_KEY_SIZE);
memset(lo->lo_name, 0, LO_NAME_SIZE);
loop_sizes[lo->lo_number] = 0;
- invalidate_buffers(dev);
+ loop_blksizes[lo->lo_number] = 0;
+ destroy_buffers(dev);
MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
return 0;
}
@@ -757,10 +759,10 @@
}
memset(loop_sizes, 0, max_loop * sizeof(int));
memset(loop_blksizes, 0, max_loop * sizeof(int));
- blk_size[MAJOR_NR] = loop_sizes;
blksize_size[MAJOR_NR] = loop_blksizes;
for (i=0; i < max_loop; i++)
register_disk(NULL, MKDEV(MAJOR_NR,i), 1, &lo_fops, 0);
+ blk_size[MAJOR_NR] = loop_sizes;

return 0;
}
@@ -771,6 +773,9 @@
if (unregister_blkdev(MAJOR_NR, "loop") != 0)
printk(KERN_WARNING "loop: cannot unregister blkdev\n");

+ blksize_size[MAJOR_NR] = NULL;
+ blk_size[MAJOR_NR] = NULL;
+
kfree (loop_dev);
kfree (loop_sizes);
kfree (loop_blksizes);
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