On 01/26/2018 09:15 AM, Metztli Information Technology wrote:
Niltze, Ed-
Hello.
I had been using Linux kernel 4.14.14 built 'the Debian way' for a couple of days --doing some light VirtualBox development and successful virtual machine test/creation. Notwithstanding, today 01-25-2018 experienced black screen kernel bug trace during browser usage. I wrote down line number of reiser4 file. FYI: No dataloss but had to reboot Debian AMD64 system due to 'kernel bug' at reference file/line: invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP PTI file []-4.14.14/linux/fs/reiser4/block_alloc.c -------------------------------------------------- [...] /* Static functions for <reiser4 super block>/<reiser4 context> block counters arithmetic. Mostly, they are isolated to not to code same assertions in several places. */ static void sub_from_ctx_grabbed(reiser4_context * ctx, __u64 count) { BUG_ON(ctx->grabbed_blocks < count); # kernel bug line 152 assert("zam-527", ctx->grabbed_blocks >= count); ctx->grabbed_blocks -= count; } [...]
This is an old bug: a leak of grabbed disk space (reservation). If it is reproducible, then one needs to insert debugging messages to find out where the grabbed space disappears. Otherwise, there is no other means except code review.
----------------------------------------------------- In addition to usual prior mentioned specific Linux 4.14.x series logged entries during kernel builds: fs/reiser4/carry.o: warning: objtool: fatal_carry_error.isra.5() falls through to next function print_level() fs/reiser4/txnmgr.o: warning: objtool: commit_txnh()+0x580: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+120 cfa2=7+136 fs/reiser4/flush.o: warning: objtool: reverse_allocate_parent() falls through to next function squalloc_right_twig_cut.isra.27() fs/reiser4/wander.o: warning: objtool: reiser4_write_logs()+0x5a2: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+184 cfa2=7+200 fs/reiser4/vfs_ops.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section
I am aware of those warnings: a friendship with objtool is required. Not of high priority. Thanks, Edward. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html