Re: access beyond end of device errors in 2.2.13pre18 AND 2.2.5

kees (kees@schoen.nl)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:30:26 +0200 (MEST)


Hi there,

Did you notice that if you convert the wanted decimal number with bc into
hex, that it is nice ascii?

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obase=16
1869116193
6F687321 <<--- is 'ohs!'
This is also valid for the other numbers.........

Kees

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Lech Szychowski wrote:

> > > kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > > kernel: 08:0d: rw=0, want 77831577, limit=15638246
> [...]
> > Well I do have a similar Problem with LVD Scsi drives (IBM DDRS)
> > connected to an 7890 Adaptec U2W controller (on board on Asus P2Bs);
> > Intel Pentium II 400MHz, 128MB RAM. Running kernel 2.2.5-22.
>
> Ditto here. With 2.3.23pre1:
>
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=1869116193, limit=2104483
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=151665510, limit=2104483
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=1769172598, limit=2104483
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=1684369000, limit=2104483
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Oct 25 11:14:58 lech kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=1869116193, limit=2104483
> [...]
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 582237
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #145481) - no data block
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_rmdir: empty directory has nlink!=2 (0)
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 582244
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 582579
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 593580
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 145481
> Oct 25 11:15:46 lech kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,6)): ext2_rmdir: empty directory has nlink!=2 (1)
>
> This resulted in filesystem corruption, of course.
> 2.3.24pre4 seems (so far, of course) to be free of this problem;
> by this I mean that 2.3.23pre1 after having been running for the
> same time as 2.3.24pre4 has now most likely would have complained.
>
> --
> Leszek.
>
> -- lech7@pse.pl 2:480/33.7 - REAL programmers use INTEGERS -
> -- speaking just for myself...
>
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