Re: XFS oops, kernel 2.4.30 w/grsecurity

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Thu Jun 09 2005 - 21:01:09 EST


On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:47:02PM +0200, Marek Materzok wrote:
> Jun 6 11:40:08 lucifer kernel: Filesystem "ide0(3,6)": XFS internal error xfs_btree_check_lblock at line 222 of file xfs_btree.c. Caller 0xc01ed58d
> Jun 6 11:40:08 lucifer kernel: c9871750 c01efc41 c0374857 00000001 d71ffc00 c037484b 000000de c01ed58d
> Jun 6 11:40:08 lucifer kernel: c8bd4f80 d76b2940 00ca1740 00000000 00000008 00000000 c987178c cf416124
> ...
> Then, the /home partition (/dev/hda6) was disabled, and every access to
> it ended with EIO. A reboot fixed the problem - the filesystem was
> rebuilt and mounted correctly. Nothing like this happened ever to my XFS
> filesystems.

This isn't an oops, its what XFS does when it detects on-disk
metadata corruption - it shuts down the filesystem, reports a
kernel stack trace and some other diagnostics, and returns EIO
on subsequent accesses to the filesystem until the problem is
resolved and the filesystem is mounted once more.

cheers.

--
Nathan
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