On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:24:17PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:56:55PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:56:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:10:16PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > Upstream commit: 4536f2ad8b330453d7ebec0746c4374eadd649b1
> > > > 
> > > > Commit 7124fe0a5b619d65b739477b3b55a20bf805b06d ("xfs: validate 
> > > > untrusted inode
> > > > numbers during lookup") changes the inode lookup code to do btree 
> > > > lookups for
> > > > untrusted inode numbers. This change made an invalid assumption about 
> > > > the
> > > > alignment of inodes and hence incorrectly calculated the first inode in 
> > > > the
> > > > cluster. As a result, some inode numbers were being incorrectly 
> > > > considered
> > > > invalid when they were actually valid.
> > > > 
> > > > The issue was not picked up by the xfstests suite because it always 
> > > > runs fsr
> > > > and dump (the two utilities that utilise the bulkstat interface) on 
> > > > cache hot
> > > > inodes and hence the lookup code in the cold cache path was not 
> > > > sufficiently
> > > > exercised to uncover this intermittent problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Fix the issue by relaxing the btree lookup criteria and then checking 
> > > > if the
> > > > record returned contains the inode number we are lookup for. If it we 
> > > > get an
> > > > incorrect record, then the inode number is invalid.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > > > [dannf: Backported to 2.6.32.y]
> > > 
> > > This still doesn't apply to the .32-longterm tree, care to try again?
> > >   patching file fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c
> > >   Hunk #1 FAILED at 1220.
> > >   Hunk #2 FAILED at 1236.
> > >   Hunk #3 FAILED at 1255.
> > >   3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> > > fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c.rej
> > 
> > Oh wait, you want the first 5 patches applied first, doh, sorry for the
> > noise, I'll work on that after lunch...
> > 
> 
> Right - though, you might hold off until this is resolved:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/692848
> 
> Dave has been working with the user to help diagnose the problem; last
> I saw he was waiting for some feedback from the user to rule out a
> pre-existing fs corruption issue. I just noticed that the user
> provided that info a few days ago, which I believe tells us that there
> is likely an alignment issue with the backport.

Ok, how about I just drop this whole series from my "to-apply" stable
queue and you resend what is needed, when it is tested.  This way I will
not forget why it's in my queue but not applied.

thansk,

greg k-h

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