Re: Strange read data corruption on ext4/LVM/md

[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:56:53 +0200
Pierre Ossman <pierre-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Still, I managed to catch a hexdump of one of these corruptions.
> Perhaps someone can spot something familiar in it that reveals the
> source of the issue:
> 

Sent this off a bit too fast. Forgot the analysis I did so far:

The corruption is 104 bytes. Somewhat odd number. I would have expected
something more fundamental like a sector or a page.

The data in question seems to come from another part of the file. The
two bad data chunks can be found in the original file:

015d1380  2b 53 f6 39 fa 9a 71 df  d0 0e 7d 09 44 20 42 0c  |+S.9..q...}.D B.|
015d1390  fa 0e 0b 71 36 19 8d d0  ed 7f c6 7f 47 8d 88 78  |...q6.......G..x|
015d13a0  2e 23 ab b2 8a c5 e0 b0  45 36 0c a7 f4 c4 19 7b  |.#......E6.....{|
015d13b0  d2 fe 6f 99 b0 b9 08 c4  6b 42 62 50 9b ab 75 cc  |..o.....kBbP..u.|
015d13c0  3a 91 3e 4f b4 d0 68 5a  03 76 fc e4 ad 47 ed b3  |:.>O..hZ.v...G..|
015d13d0  59 04 f5 93 eb 3d fa ca  5a dc 2c 6c dd 5e da d8  |Y....=..Z.,l.^..|
015d13e0  71 30 75 89 12 99 a7 aa  d0 d1 4c a4 fd 2a f5 fa  |q0u.......L..*..|

02210380  e7 3b 47 3d ae 02 53 d4  1a d0 24 9a 69 c6 81 8a  |.;G=..S...$.i...|
02210390  82 1f 4e 6b 76 de 84 da  07 5d f2 89 50 9c 01 89  |..Nkv....]..P...|
022103a0  d6 03 bb 7d 15 5a 39 05  c7 ee 4e 51 4b a9 84 1c  |...}.Z9...NQK...|
022103b0  19 da 5e d8 95 2a 36 a5  cc 59 02 69 d6 11 e4 43  |..^..*6..Y.i...C|
022103c0  5d 36 50 a0 ed 95 42 24  eb 9b e8 e7 ad 9d 23 9a  |]6P...B$......#.|
022103d0  d5 cb 32 2b e0 37 16 36  96 b8 9a 01 d5 00 eb 86  |..2+.7.6........|
022103e0  09 db 97 5b 76 ed 0b 4f  6d 90 3b af 2a 1c 2a cc  |...[v..Om.;.*.*.|

The shifts are 015d1380 => 015d0f80 (-1024 bytes) and 02210380 =>
0220ff80 (also -1024 bytes). At least the offset is a nice, sane power
of two number.

Rgds
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