On Nov 23, 2017, at 4:31 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:23:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:33:30PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an older qemu VM image that i sometimes use for testing. It
>>> stopped booting with 4.13-4.14 because it couldn't run init.
>>> It uses ext3 for the root file system.
>>
>> Hmm, do you know roughly when (what krenel version) this image was
>> created? We had done quite a lot of research and the belief was
>> kernels never would create a "slow" symlink which was less than 60
>> bytes.
>
> The date of the inode is from 2007, the original kernel was 2.6.17
> with a 32bit kernel.
>
>> Or was this image something that was created manually (e.g., using debugfs)?
>
> No, it was installed.
As a workaround, you could delete and recreate the symlink with the new
kernel to create a proper fast symlink. It would be useful to scan the
image to see if there are other similar symlinks present:
find /myth/tmp -type l -size -60 -ls | awk '$2 != 0 { print }'
This is probably something that e2fsck should check for and fix.
Cheers, Andreas
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