Re: [Bug #14256] kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:435

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 09 2009 - 18:03:15 EST


On Friday 09 October 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Mikael Pettersson writes:
> > Rafael J. Wysocki writes:
> > > On Sunday 04 October 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > > > > introduced between 2.6.30 and 2.6.31. Please verify if it still should
> > > > > be listed and let me know (either way).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D14256
> > > > > Subject : kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:435
> > > > > Submitter : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Date : 2009-09-21 7:29 (11 days old)
> > > > > References : http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D125351816109264&w=3D4
> > > >
> > > > The exact same bug (same cause, same symptom) just hit me again in 2.6.32-rc1.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the update.
> > >
> > > Could you check the current Linus' tree, please? There are some known
> > > regression fixes in there.
> >
> > I tried simplified versions of the bug trigger on two machines
> > running 2.6.32-rc1-git6, and neither triggered the kernel bug.
> >
> > The original recipe involved doing a glibc rebuild, run its test
> > suite, install it, and reboot. Today however machine 1 was already
> > doing a rebuild so after the rebuild it did a reboot into the new
> > kernel before the install. The second machine booted the new kernel
> > directly to install the binary packages from the first machine.
> >
> > I'll re-run the full bug trigger recipe on a third machine later next
> > week (it must rebuild glibc itself anyway due to arch differences).
>
> Not fixed in 2.6.32-rc3. A glibc rebuild + install triggered the
> exact same bug on the third machine.

Thanks for the update.

Rafael
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