On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I get xfstests failure of overlay/017 on a kvm guest. The symptom is >> that the chardev turns into a whiteout (i.e. the 1/1 device number >> magically turns to 0/0 after flushing the caches) but then turns back >> into the old chardev on remount or another cache flush. So the >> underlying xfs is not currupted but the cache is (verified that i_rdev >> was indeed zeroed out on the relevant inode). >> >> Btw. i_rdev on the blkdev also turned zero, but the test doesn't >> respond to that, because it's only checking the inum and not other >> attributes. >> >> The test triggers reliably, but shows signs of a heisenbug (e.g. >> adding printks lessens or eliminates the chance of triggering) >> >> Attaching the full xfs trace, the output of the testcase and guest >> kernel config. >> >> Haven't been able to reproduce without overlayfs, so possibly >> overlayfs is the culprit. >> >> Any ideas? >> > > That is supposed to be fixed by > acd1d71598f7 xfs: preserve i_rdev when recycling a reclaimable inode > > It fixes a v4.15 regression. Ah, thanks. Missed that due to not having the Cc: stable tag. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
