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

Lech Szychowski (lech.szychowski@pse.pl)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:48:23 +0200

> > 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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