Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755621AbcJZQso (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:48:44 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com ([209.85.218.43]:34701 "EHLO mail-oi0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754064AbcJZQsm (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:48:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161026163018.wx57yy554576s6e2@codemonkey.org.uk> References: <20161020230341.jsxpia2sy53xn5l5@codemonkey.org.uk> <20161021200245.kahjzgqzdfyoe3uz@codemonkey.org.uk> <20161022152033.gkmm3l75kqjzsije@codemonkey.org.uk> <20161024044051.onmh4h6sc2bjxzzc@codemonkey.org.uk> <77d9983d-a00a-1dc1-a9a1-631de1d0c146@fb.com> <20161026002752.qvrm6yxqb54fiqnd@codemonkey.org.uk> <20161026163018.wx57yy554576s6e2@codemonkey.org.uk> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:48:39 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ANOPG78ACDNYOczY0gIiCpAb2xw Message-ID: Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption. To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Chris Mason , Andy Lutomirski , Andy Lutomirski , Jens Axboe , Al Viro , Josef Bacik , David Sterba , linux-btrfs , Linux Kernel , Dave Chinner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 18 On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > I gave this a go last thing last night. It crashed within 5 minutes, > but it was one we've already seen (the bad page map trace) with nothing > additional that looked interesting. Did the bad page map trace have any registers that looked like they had 0xd0d0d0d0d0d0 in them? I assume not, but worth checking. > Heisenbugs man, literally the worst. I know you already had this in some email, but I lost it. I think you narrowed it down to a specific set of system calls that seems to trigger this best. fallocate and xattrs or something? Linus