Re: [2.6.33 regression] btrfs mount causes memory corruption

From: Andrew Lutomirski
Date: Thu Feb 25 2010 - 15:30:04 EST


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:01:08PM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>> Mounting btrfs corrupts memory and causes nasty crashes within a few
>> seconds.  This seems to happen even if the mount fails (note the
>> unrecognized mount option).  This is a regression from 2.6.32, and
>> I've attached an example.
>>
>
> And it only happens when you mount a btrfs fs?  Can you show me a trace of when
> you mount a btrfs fs with valid mount options?  I'd like to see if we're not
> cleaning up something properly or what.  Thanks,

Seems OK. Or maybe I just got lucky, but it's crashed every time I
tried to mount with 'acl' before.

I even went through a couple iterations of trying to mount with
'xattr' and 'user_xattr', both of which failed.

--Andy
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