Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

From: Chris Mason
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 16:25:15 EST


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 22:19 +0100, wk wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:38 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd have expected to see stat() returning -EOVERFLOW, but it isn't there.
> >>>
> >>> googling around a bit seems to indcate that this might be a glibc issue:
> >>>
> >>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146951
> >>>
> >>> But the traces are all using stat64() and fstat64(). And why would it
> >>> just start occurring now?
> >>>
> >> Maybe glibc is using the 64-bit stat calls and returning -EOVERFLOW to
> >> the application when the results from the kernel turn out to be > 32-bit
> >> in size?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6c31b93a14a453c8756ffd228e24910ffdf30c5d
> >
> > I'd guess the commit above is related, although I don't see any way for
> > it to make things interesting without the user doing mount -o inode64.
> >
> > strace -v should show us more, it would show if the inode numbers coming
> > out of stat64 are big.
> >
> > -chris
> >
> >
> I cannot fully understand what strace -v outputs (see attachment), but
> what i see is that 'find' stops after finding a file with d_off = 4294967295
> 4294967295 = 0xFFFFFFFF, adding any number greater that zero will be
> greater that 32bits, so this could be the reason for the message "value
> too large".
>
>
>
> I also noticed that i cannot access these files through samba if i boot
> from 2.6.28 - really strange.
> If i reboot older kernels these are visible in samba again and fully
> accessible.
>
> Attached the log from stracing the command which was ivoked by the
> Makefile from v4l-dvb.
> I guess this is all i could contribute to that problem. Thats stuff for
> xfs filesystem experts now..

Seems suspect indeed. Could you please attach the strace for the run
that works on the older kernel?

-chris


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