Created attachment 52392 [details] Test ext4 file system (intentionally corrupted) Mounting the attached (intentionally corrupted) ext4 filesystem image causes a kernel OOPS (under KVM, vanilla 2.6.38.2, x86-64) Steps to reproduce: 1. bunzip2 hdb.41.bz2 2. mount hdb.41 /mnt -t ext4 -o errors=continue [oops] Here's the dmesg output after issuing the mount command: ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:659! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] last sysfs file: CPU 0 Pid: 2639, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.38.2 #3 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81054983>] [<ffffffff81054983>] mod_timer+0x1d3/0x250 RSP: 0000:ffff880003757ac8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880003d83500 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000010148cdae RDI: ffff880003d83500 RBP: ffff880003757b08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000004000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000010148cdae R13: 000000010148cdae R14: ffffffff81c23b05 R15: ffffffff81efa148 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8221e000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7587960 CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 000000000856d000 CR3: 000000000376e000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process mount (pid: 2639, threadinfo ffff880003756000, task ffff88000556ef90) Stack: 0000000000000002 0000000000000002 ffff880004490208 0000000000000000 ffff8800076e7400 ffff880003d81000 0000000000001385 ffffffff81c23b05 ffff880003757b38 ffffffff811e9b5a ffff880003d81000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff811e9b5a>] __save_error_info+0x9a/0x110 [<ffffffff811ee7f1>] save_error_info+0x11/0x30 [<ffffffff811efc31>] ext4_error_inode+0x61/0x110 [<ffffffff8111d5b6>] ? __wait_on_buffer+0x26/0x30 [<ffffffff811d4710>] ? __ext4_get_inode_loc+0x1e0/0x400 [<ffffffff811d69f4>] ext4_iget+0x714/0x830 [<ffffffff81074188>] ? debug_mutex_init+0x38/0x50 [<ffffffff811f28d4>] ext4_fill_super+0x1664/0x2890 [<ffffffff81078d0d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x13d/0x180 [<ffffffff810f4f37>] mount_bdev+0x1a7/0x1f0 [<ffffffff811f1270>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x2890 [<ffffffff811e82f0>] ext4_mount+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff810f52d8>] vfs_kern_mount+0x88/0x280 [<ffffffff810f56df>] do_kern_mount+0x4f/0x100 [<ffffffff811102fb>] do_mount+0x3db/0x810 [<ffffffff8110fe40>] ? copy_mount_options+0xf0/0x190 [<ffffffff8113729f>] compat_sys_mount+0x12f/0x280 [<ffffffff81033642>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5 Code: 50 48 e9 04 ff ff ff 90 4d 89 e5 49 29 c5 49 c1 ed 08 4d 01 e5 e9 80 fe ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 bd 01 00 00 00 e9 48 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 49 89 c6 e9 1d ff ff ff 4c 8b 35 0c 8e 2c 01 4d 85 f6 0f RIP [<ffffffff81054983>] mod_timer+0x1d3/0x250 RSP <ffff880003757ac8> ---[ end trace 1b18f0361c17f387 ]--- ./runtest: line 35: 2639 Segmentation fault mount $HDB /mnt -t ext4 -o errors=continue ------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Sami, please check this patch. It should resolve your problem. It works here now. http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=130137187707414&w=2
Yes, seems to fix the panic. Thank you.
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in v2.6.39-rc3: commit 0449641130f5652b344ef6fa39fa019d7e94660a Author: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Date: Tue Apr 5 19:55:28 2011 -0400 ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info