https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203319 Bug ID: 203319 Summary: [xfstests generic/538]: unaligned direct AIO find ext4 corruption Product: File System Version: 2.5 Kernel Version: 5.1.0-rc4+ Hardware: All OS: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: ext4 Assignee: fs_ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: zlang@xxxxxxxxxx Regression: No After we fixed: commit 372a03e01853f860560eade508794dd274e9b390 Author: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 14 23:20:25 2019 -0400 ext4: fix data corruption caused by unaligned direct AIO generic/538 still can trigger a failure on ext4, I hit it once on ppc64le machine: Running test generic/538 #! /bin/bash # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 # Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. # # FS QA Test No. 538 # # Non-block-aligned direct AIO write test with an initial truncate i_size. # # Uncover "ext4: Fix data corruption caused by unaligned direct AIO": # (Ext4 needs to serialize unaligned direct AIO because the zeroing of FSTYP -- ext4 PLATFORM -- Linux/ppc64le ibm-p8-kvm-11-guest-02 5.1.0-rc4+ MKFS_OPTIONS -- /dev/vda5 MOUNT_OPTIONS -- -o acl,user_xattr -o context=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 /dev/vda5 /mnt/xfstests/mnt2 generic/538 - output mismatch (see /var/lib/xfstests/results//generic/538.out.bad) --- tests/generic/538.out 2019-04-14 05:10:30.200092759 -0400 +++ /var/lib/xfstests/results//generic/538.out.bad 2019-04-14 07:20:09.996795190 -0400 @@ -1,2 +1,20 @@ QA output created by 538 +Data verification fails +Find corruption +00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ +* +00000200 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ +00002000 ... (Run 'diff -u /var/lib/xfstests/tests/generic/538.out /var/lib/xfstests/results//generic/538.out.bad' to see the entire diff) Ran: generic/538 Failures: generic/538 Failed 1 of 1 tests # cat 538.out.bad QA output created by 538 Data verification fails Find corruption 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ * 00000200 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 00002000 FAIL: [8704, 8192, 512, 0] ------------------------------------------------- Data verification fails Find corruption 00002000 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ * 00002200 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ * 00003000 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 00004000 FAIL: [8704, 8192, 512, 8192] ------------------------------------------------- Silence is golden -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.