RE: ext4: what are possible causes of "zero length extent" ?

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Hello Ted and Andreas,

Is https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d2dc317d564a46dfc683978a2e5a4f91434e9711
"ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents"
a fix for one of the causes of "zero length extent"?

Regards,
Mark Craske
Embedded Software Engineer
Linux Transportation Solutions 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-ext4-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-ext4-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craske, Mark
> Sent: 23 May 2016 11:49
> To: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Theodore Ts'o; Andreas Dilger
> Subject: RE: ext4: what are possible causes of "zero length extent" ?
> 
> Hello Ted and Andreas,
> 
> We are still getting instances of "zero length extent" ext4 file system
> corruptions.
> Are there any know causes, and are any of those fixes by upstream kernel
> patches?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark Craske
> Embedded Software Engineer
> Linux Transportation Solutions
> 
> Mentor Graphics (UK) Ltd., Rivergate, Newbury Business Park, London Road,
> Newbury, RG14 2QB, UK
> 
> Tel: +44 (0)1635 81 1436
> Mobile : +44 (0)7900 008 230
> E-mail : Mark_Craske@xxxxxxxxxx
> Yahoo-IM: mcraske_uk   Skype: mcraske_uk
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-ext4-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-ext4-
> > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craske, Mark
> > Sent: 11 May 2016 11:22
> > To: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Theodore Ts'o; Andreas Dilger
> > Subject: ext4: what are possible causes of "zero length extent" ?
> >
> > Hello ext4 maintainers,
> >
> > This is somewhat of a follow-on from the "ext4 filesystem bad extent
> > error review"
> > thread from 2014.
> >
> > Embedded system with main SoC Freescale i.MX6(ARM cortex A9), dual
> > CPU, running kernel 3.8.13.28, storage device is eMMC.
> > This still suffers from "zero length extent" ext4 file system corruptions.
> >
> > I looked for upstream patches, but did not find any that explicitly
> > fix "zero length extent"
> > problems apart from "2f97486 ext4: check for zero length extent explicitly".
> > That patch prevents the kernel panics but makes the affected file
> > unreadable and unremovable, which can be fixed by running fsck.
> >
> > What are possible causes of "zero length extent", and are there
> > upstream patches that actually deal with some of those?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark Craske
> > Mentor Graphics (UK) Ltd.
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