Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:32:47 +1100 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: Crash (ext3 ) during 2.6.29-rc6 boot |
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Andrew Morton writes:
> It looks like we died in ext3_xattr_block_get(): > > memcpy(buffer, bh->b_data + le16_to_cpu(entry->e_value_offs), > size); > > Perhaps entry->e_value_offs is no good. I wonder if the filesystem is > corrupted and this snuck through the defenses. > > I also wonder if there is enough info in that trace for a ppc person to > be able to determine whether the faulting address is in the source or > destination of the memcpy() (please)?
It appears to have faulted on a load, implicating the source. The address being referenced (0xc00000003f380000) doesn't look outlandish. I wonder if this kernel has CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on, and what page size is selected?
Paul.
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