Hi Eric!
On Tue 09-05-23 14:20:15, Eric Whitney wrote:
> I'm seeing two test regressions on 6.4-rc1 while running the adv test case
> with kvm-xfstests. Both tests fail with 100% reliability in 100 trial runs,
> and the failures appear to depend solely upon the fast commit mount option.
>
> The first is generic/065, where the relevant info from 065.full is:
>
> _check_generic_filesystem: filesystem on /dev/vdc is inconsistent
> *** fsck.ext4 output ***
> fsck from util-linux 2.36.1
> e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> Directories count wrong for group #16 (4294967293, counted=0).
>
>
> The second is generic/535, where the test output is:
>
> QA output created by 535
> Silence is golden
> +Before: 755
> +After : 777
>
> Both test failures bisect to: e360c6ed7274 ("ext4: Drop special handling of
> journalled data from ext4_sync_file()"). Reverting this patch eliminates the
> test failures. So, I thought I'd bring these to your attention.
Thanks for report! Yeah, when doing commit e360c6ed7274 I forgot about
directories which can be also fsynced and which need special treatment. I
have to think a bit what's the best way to fix this.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
