Re: 2.6.30-rc: reiserfs_delete_xattrs log spam (bug 13122)

From: Jeff Mahoney
Date: Sat May 09 2009 - 10:11:19 EST


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Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> On 9 May, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> I just switched from 2.6.29.1 to 2.6.30-rc5, and I'm getting the same as
>>> the reporter of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13122 alias
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123990989515105, i.e. repetitions of
>>> >>>
>>> May 9 14:27:22 stein REISERFS warning (device sda1): jdm-20004
>>> reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
>>> May 9 14:27:22 stein
>>> <<<
>>>
>>> This happens in irregular intervals, but a lot of times --- presumably
>>> when certain files are accessed. I'm on a recently set-up Gentoo
>>> machine. I created its root filesystem using the Gentoo x86-64 minimal
>>> boot CD; my guess is that the kernel of the boot CD had
>>> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR enabled. All kernels which I used since then
>>> have it disabled: 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, 2.6.29.1, now 2.6.30-rc5.
>> PS: Also, the following came up at this (= first) boot of 2.6.30-rc, as
>> a warm reboot from 2.6.29.1. I have no idea whether it's connected to
>> the issue.
>
> That WARN_ON() is fixed in the patches in VFS queue; should be gone in
> -next and I'm going to push a bunch of fixes to Linus today, this one
> among them.
>
> The first one you've reported is a different story. Could you try to
> bisect it?

I'm looking into this right now. I have an idea, but I haven't been able
to reproduce it yet to test.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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