Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx_probe

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:11:36PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:02:28AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:50:26PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> > > > I have just encountered a similar problem after I've recently upgraded to 4.7.0:
> > > > [Wed Aug  3 11:08:57 2016] EXT4-fs error (device dm-1): dx_probe:740: inode #13295: comm python: Directory index failed checksum
> > > > [Wed Aug  3 11:08:57 2016] Aborting journal on device dm-1-8.
> > > > [Wed Aug  3 11:08:57 2016] EXT4-fs (dm-1): Remounting filesystem read-only
> > > > [Wed Aug  3 11:08:57 2016] EXT4-fs error (device dm-1): ext4_journal_check_start:56: Detected aborted journal
> > > 
> > > It just happened again to me, this time hitting /usr/sbin/
> > > on root fs.  Meanwhile I ran memtest86 7.0 for two nights,
> > > it didn't find anything.  I'm using hibernate regularly
> > > and I think so this only happened after a few hibernate/resume
> > > cycles, but no idea if that means anything.
> > > Now I'm back at 4.4.16 to see if it reproduces.
> > 
> > When you're back on 4.7, can you apply this patch[1] to see if it fixes
> > the problem?  I speculate that the new parallel dir lookup code enables
> > multiple threads to be verifying the same directory block buffer at the
> > same time.
> > 
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ext4/inode.c?id=b47820edd1634dc1208f9212b7ecfb4230610a23
> 
> I added the patch, rebuilt and rebooted.  It will take some time
> before I'll report back since the issue is so hard to reproduce.

FWIW I could trigger it reliably by running a bunch of directory traversal
programs simultaneously on the same directory.  I have a script that fires
up multiple mutts pointing to the Maildirs for the high traffic Linux lists.

--D

> 
> Thanks,
> Johannes
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