The upstream commits are: 0f2af21aae1197 ext4: allocate entire range in zero range 94426f4b964815 ext4: fix loss of delalloc extent info in ext4_zero_range() The first patch in particular is needed to address the following failure: kernel BUG at /usr/projects/linux/ext4-3.18/fs/ext4/inode.c:1242! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CPU: 0 PID: 17896 Comm: xfs_io Not tainted 3.18.21-ext4 #2 Hardware name: Google Google, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 task: ffff8802104ec7d0 ti: ffff8801f95bc000 task.ti: ffff8801f95bc000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81216978>] [<ffffffff81216978>] ext4_da_invalidatepage+0x61/0x293 RSP: 0018:ffff8801f95bfcf8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000400 RBX: ffffea0002bec500 RCX: 0100000000000825 RDX: 00000000fffffc00 RSI: 0000000000000400 RDI: ffffea0002bec500 RBP: ffff8800b9ffed78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8801f95bfce8 R11: ffff8800b9ee8de0 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00000000fffffc00 R14: 0000000000000400 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00000000009a0880(0063) GS:ffff88021de00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fa6ba80d000 CR3: 0000000210633000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 Stack: 0000040000000000 0000000000000002 0000000000000002 ffffffff8114e9f2 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 ffff8800b9ffed78 0000000000000001 ffffea0002bec500 0000000000000400 0000000000000000 ffffffff81159a98 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8114e9f2>] ? pagecache_get_page+0x27/0x14e [<ffffffff81159a98>] ? truncate_inode_pages_range+0x226/0x427 [<ffffffff81159572>] ? __pagevec_release+0x23/0x2c [<ffffffff8114e21e>] ? filemap_fdatawait_range+0xec/0x105 [<ffffffff8123bf19>] ? ext4_fallocate+0x27e/0x6d2 [<ffffffff8118d478>] ? do_fallocate+0x137/0x161 [<ffffffff8118d4eb>] ? SyS_fallocate+0x49/0x65 [<ffffffff81661889>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Code: 44 89 ea 48 89 df 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 3c ec ff ff 8b 44 24 04 44 8d 0c 10 41 81 f9 00 10 00 00 77 05 44 39 ca 76 02 <0f> 0b 48 8b 07 f6 c4 08 75 02 0f 0b 48 8b 47 08 31 d2 31 ed 4c RIP [<ffffffff81216978>] ext4_da_invalidatepage+0x61/0x293 RSP <ffff8801f95bfcf8> .... which can be triggered by calling fallocate with FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE on a file with in a file system using a 1k blocksize with an offset of 4300 and a length of 512 bytes. Many thanks! - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html