Chris Mason
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David
Boutcher/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
08/29/2002 08:40 Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Memory
Corruption
AM
>On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:00, David Boutcher wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 12:50, Dave Boutcher wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>>> I'm chasing a wierd memory corruption problem on a ppc64 system. The
>>> first byte of a slab_t structure keeps getting stepped on (zeroed,
>>> actually.) This happens during a testcase that copies a large file
>>> called "junk" between file systems (a mix of ext2 and reiser) on a
>>> 2.4.13 kernel. I know that's REALLY REALLY old, but it's whats in
>>> SuSE's SLES-7 release that we have customers running...
>>
>>Any chance the test case involves renames?
>>
>>-chris
>>
>>So I posted my problem with memory corruption a few weeks ago....and the
>>problem turned out to be a REALLY old/moldy set of userland reiser tools.
>>I don't know exactly why that caused memory corruption in the kernel, but
>>updating the tools fixed everything right up.
>Well, that shouldn't fix it ;-) Which version of reiserfsprogs were you
>running before?
>
>Are the filesystems getting checked during boot at all (you would see
>reiserfsck messages during boot)?
The fixed tools show:
[root@linux102 /root]# reiserfsck -V
<-------------reiserfsck, 2002------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.6.3
The broken tools show:
[root@linux102 /root]# /sbin/reiserfsck.org -V
<-------------reiserfsck, 2002------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.x.1a
[root@linux102 /root]# ls -l /sbin/reiserfsck*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 719431 Aug 21 10:16 /sbin/reiserfsck*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 265740 Feb 28 2002
/sbin/reiserfsck.org*
[root@linux102 /root]#
This was Turbolinux...the broken tools are the ones shipped with their 6.5
distribution.
Dave B
