* Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> [2009-07-22 11:50:00]: > On Wed 22-07-09 10:42:52, Nageswara R Sastry wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > > > >My first guess would be that journal superblock was corrupted by > > >fsfuzzer so that the journal had less than 32 blocks and the warning > > >triggered. That being said, we might use more sanity checks when loading > > >journal superblock because currently it just blindly consumes what's on > > >disk. We can't do too much since we don't know anything about the > > >filesystem structure but we can do at least something. I'll write a > > >patch for that in a moment... > > > > Any updates on this. Thanks!! > I have a patch queued for this in my patch queue and will ask Linus for > merging it probably tomorrow. Similar JBD2 fix is in the Ted's patch queue > also waiting for being merged. I'm also attaching the fix for your > convenience. Thanks, the patch fixes the warning. > > Honza > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR > From 7447a668a3860b66b3c9db86fdea91e355ba59ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:36:08 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 1/5] jbd: Fail to load a journal if it is too short > > Due to on disk corruption, it can happen that journal is too short. Fail > to load it in such case so that we don't oops somewhere later. > Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/jbd/journal.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c > index 737f724..94a64a1 100644 > --- a/fs/jbd/journal.c > +++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c > @@ -848,6 +848,12 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal) > > first = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_first); > last = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_maxlen); > + if (first + JFS_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS > last + 1) { > + printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: Journal too short (blocks %lu-%lu).\n", > + first, last); > + journal_fail_superblock(journal); > + return -EINVAL; > + } > > journal->j_first = first; > journal->j_last = last; > -- > 1.6.0.2 > Kamalesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html