Messages like this flooded my syslog ballooning it up to 90GB, and causing other failures when the system drive had no free space left (bad). Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217575] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217580] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 28173 at /build/buildd/linux-3.13.0/drivers/md/raid5.c:3856 handle_stripe+0x24e4/0x2500 [raid456]() Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217581] Modules linked in: pci_stub vboxpci(OF) vboxnetadp(OF) vboxnetflt(OF) vboxdrv(OF) gpio_ich coretemp kvm_intel kvm serio_raw bnep rfcomm bluetooth nvidia(POF) i3000_edac parport_pc drm lpc_ich ppdev lp shpchp mac_hid edac_core parport xfs btrfs libcrc32c raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor usb_storage pata_acpi ahci psmouse libahci e1000e raid6_pq ptp pps_core raid1 raid0 multipath sata_mv floppy linear Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217612] CPU: 0 PID: 28173 Comm: md2_resync Tainted: PF W O 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217613] Hardware name: Supermicro PDSM4+/PDSM4+, BIOS 6.00 11/04/2008 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217615] 0000000000000009 ffff88017e997af0 ffffffff8171a214 0000000000000000 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217618] ffff88017e997b28 ffffffff810676bd ffff88010d90a6b0 0000000000000009 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217621] 0000000000000009 ffff8800369e8c00 000000000000000e ffff88017e997b38 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217624] Call Trace: Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217627] [<ffffffff8171a214>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217630] [<ffffffff810676bd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217633] [<ffffffff8106779a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217637] [<ffffffffa0108cd4>] handle_stripe+0x24e4/0x2500 [raid456] Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217640] [<ffffffff8109a7b2>] ? default_wake_function+0x12/0x20 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217644] [<ffffffff810aaeb2>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x12/0x40 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217646] [<ffffffff810aa7b8>] ? __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217651] [<ffffffffa0104c1e>] ? get_active_stripe+0x58e/0x7c0 [raid456] Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217656] [<ffffffffa0109b9c>] sync_request+0x17c/0x3e0 [raid456] Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217658] [<ffffffff815a40b1>] ? is_mddev_idle+0xd1/0x140 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217661] [<ffffffff815a7393>] md_do_sync+0x993/0xdc0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217664] [<ffffffff810aaea0>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217667] [<ffffffff815a3f48>] md_thread+0x118/0x130 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217670] [<ffffffff815a3e30>] ? mddev_unlock+0xe0/0xe0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217673] [<ffffffff8108b322>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217676] [<ffffffff8108b250>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1d0/0x1d0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217678] [<ffffffff8172ab3c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217681] [<ffffffff8108b250>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1d0/0x1d0 Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217683] ---[ end trace 518bf06a77e3600a ]--- Jun 23 08:25:08 monster kernel: [762785.217694] ------------[ cut here ]------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html