As mentioned in a recent concall, I've been seeing some unpleasant looking failures of generic/224 when running the encryption test case on x86_64 with xfstest-bld's test appliance. I first saw an outright failure of the test accompanied by kernel errors in a 4.5-rc7 regression run, and was able to reproduce the same on 4.5. The test fails relatively rarely - about one in ten trials. The set of reported kernel errors varies considerably from run to run. The one constant is an ENOSPC complaint from ext4_bio_write_page() which appears whether the test passes or fails. This is sometimes followed by another error, "JBD2: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on vdc-8", and in this case the test also passes. Generic/224 is intended to test delayed allocation behavior at ENOSPC, so the ENOSPC condition itself is not necessarily surprising. (The ext4_bio_write_page() messages appeared in test runs on earlier kernels, such as 4.4, as well.) Here's one example of the log from a failed test run: generic/224 27s ... [20:18:49][ 3.684368] run fstests generic/224 at 2016-03-15 20:18:49 [ 4.279852] EXT4-fs (vdc): Test dummy encryption mode enabled [ 18.146614] ext4_bio_write_page: ret = -12 [ 18.150493] ext4_bio_write_page: ret = -12 [ 18.150494] ext4_bio_write_page: ret = -12 [ 18.165865] ext4_bio_write_page: ret = -12 [ 19.131662] Aborting journal on device vdc-8. [ 19.152549] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_journal_check_start:56: Detected aborted journal [ 19.153998] EXT4-fs (vdc): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 19.169351] EXT4-fs error (device vdc) in ext4_writepages:2612: IO failure [ 19.178186] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_journal_check_start:56: Detected aborted journal [ 19.240552] JBD2: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on vdc-8 [ 19.241859] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.242915] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.244072] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.245130] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.246178] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.247234] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.248423] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.249556] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.250670] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.251551] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.252061] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.252694] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.253789] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.254933] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.255823] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.256883] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.257944] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.259006] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.259957] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 19.261021] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [20:19:09] - output mismatch (see /results/results-encrypt/generic/224.out.bad) --- tests/generic/224.out 2015-10-25 10:50:34.000000000 +0000 +++ /results/results-encrypt/generic/224.out.bad 2016-03-15 20:19:09.505673157 +0000 @@ -1,2 +1,1003 @@ QA output created by 224 *** Silence is golden *** +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/testfile.0': Read-only file system +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/testfile.1': Read-only file system +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/testfile.10': Read-only file system +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/testfile.100': Read-only file system +rm: cannot remove '/vdc/testfile.1000': Read-only file system ... (Run 'diff -u tests/generic/224.out /results/results-encrypt/generic/224.out.bad' to see the entire diff) [ 24.604435] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.604950] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.605441] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.605929] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.606419] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.607149] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.607703] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.608190] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.608676] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.609161] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.609645] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.610388] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.610893] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.611390] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.611875] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.612359] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.612841] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.613325] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.613945] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.614456] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.614946] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.615466] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.615953] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.616448] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.616970] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.617488] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data [ 24.619602] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_put_super:838: Couldn't clean up the journal [ 24.643588] EXT4-fs (vdc): Test dummy encryption mode enabled [ 24.650443] EXT4-fs warning (device vdc): ext4_clear_journal_err:4442: Filesystem error recorded from previous mount: Out of memory [ 24.651523] EXT4-fs warning (device vdc): ext4_clear_journal_err:4443: Marking fs in need of filesystem check. [ 24.655258] EXT4-fs (vdc): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended Ran: generic/224 Failures: generic/224 Failed 1 of 1 tests -- 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