Re: [Linux-cachefs] fscache corruption in Linux 5.17?

From: David Wysochanski
Date: Tue Apr 19 2022 - 11:24:35 EST


On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:19 AM Max Kellermann <mk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2022/04/19 15:02, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I presume you are actually using a cache?
>
> Yes, see:
>
> On 2022/04/12 17:10, Max Kellermann <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-ag> wrote:
> > All web servers mount a storage via NFSv3 with fscache.
>
> At least one web server is still in this broken state right now. So
> if you need anything from that server, tell me, and I'll get it.
>
> I will need to downgrade to 5.16 tomorrow to get rid of the corruption
> bug (I've delayed this for a week, waiting for your reply). After
> tomorrow, I can no longer help debugging this.
>
> Max
>

FWIW, I just noticed one of my unit tests is failing with data
corruption with NFSv3 only (NFS4.x does not fail) on 5.18.0-rc3 - not
sure how repeatable it is.
I'll see what I can find out.