>Number:         163310
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Panics, sudden reboots and file system corrupts with snapshots 
>on SU+J
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 15 10:30:11 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yamagi Burmeister
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.0-RC3, r228526
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD vbox.happy.home.yamagi.org 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 r228526: Thu Dec 
15 10:19:23 CET 2011     
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
There are still a lot of strange things happening when create and / or removing 
ufs snapshots on filesystems with SU+J. While investigating random panics while 
creating snapshots I experienced:

- Deadlocks, freezing the whole system or just any file system activity. 
Sometime the kernel prints messages like "fsync: giving up on dirty"

- Random panics with different panic strings like "panic: snapacct_ufs2: bad 
block" or the generic "panic: page fault while in kernel mode". The backtraces 
were different too.

- Sudden reboots.

- Corrupted filesystems, only repairable by two or more consecutive runs of 
"fsck -y" in single user mode.

Non of the problems arise when using normal softupdates without journaling. 
This problems can be seen on several machines and even in VirtualBox, so 
hardware failure can be ruled out. Looks like some race condition somewhere in 
the ufs or snapshot code. Further debug information - including file system 
images - can be provided if necessary.
>How-To-Repeat:
% mount
/dev/ada0p2 on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)

# create some load
% cp -r /usr/src /tmp

# Switch to another tty and create a snapshot
% mksnap_ffs / /.snap/foo1

Repeat this until the box crashes.
>Fix:
Non. Smells like a race condition or something like that.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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