The patch titled ext3/ext4: orphan list check on destroy_inode has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3/ext4: orphan list check on destroy_inode From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx> Customers claims to ext3-related errors, investigation showed that ext3 orphan list has been corrupted and have the reference to non-ext3 inode. The following debug helps to understand the reasons of this issue. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 7 +++++++ fs/ext4/super.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode fs/ext3/super.c --- a/fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode +++ a/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -459,6 +459,13 @@ static struct inode *ext3_alloc_inode(st static void ext3_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { + if (!list_empty(&(EXT3_I(inode)->i_orphan))) { + printk("EXT3 Inode %p: orphan list check failed!\n", + EXT3_I(inode)); + print_hex_dump(KERN_INFO, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, + EXT3_I(inode), sizeof(struct ext3_inode_info)); + dump_stack(); + } kmem_cache_free(ext3_inode_cachep, EXT3_I(inode)); } diff -puN fs/ext4/super.c~ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode fs/ext4/super.c --- a/fs/ext4/super.c~ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode +++ a/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -510,6 +510,13 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(st static void ext4_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { + if (!list_empty(&(EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan))) { + printk("EXT4 Inode %p: orphan list check failed!\n", + EXT4_I(inode)); + print_hex_dump(KERN_INFO, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, + EXT4_I(inode), sizeof(struct ext4_inode_info)); + dump_stack(); + } kmem_cache_free(ext4_inode_cachep, EXT4_I(inode)); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vvs@xxxxx are wrong-timeout-value-in-sk_wait_data-v2-fix.patch ext3-lost-brelse-in-ext3_read_inode.patch ext4-lost-brelse-in-ext4_read_inode.patch ext3-ext4-orphan-list-check-on-destroy_inode.patch ext3-ext4-orphan-list-corruption-due-bad-inode.patch i2o_cfg_passthru-cleanup.patch i2o_cfg_passthru-cleanup-fix.patch wrong-memory-access-in-i2o_block_device_lock.patch i2o-message-leak-in-i2o_msg_post_wait_mem.patch i2o-proc-reading-oops.patch i2o-debug-output-cleanup.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html