Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758243AbXJXNQT (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756335AbXJXNQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:16:10 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:54702 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755743AbXJXNQJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:16:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:15:40 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kamalesh Babulal Subject: 2.6.23-git18: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory Message-ID: <20071024131540.GV32058@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 29 Seems that we are now getting strange errors mounting an ext2 root filesystem under 2.6.23-git18: EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 This seems to be occuring consistently since 2.6.23-git18. I have been back and rerun a -git17 job to confirm its not visible at that level. This bug is expressing itself in 2.6.23-rc1 also. I am suspicious of this commit in the -git17 -> -git18 block: commit 89910cccb8fec0c1140d33a743e72a712efd4f05 Author: Jan Kara Date: Sun Oct 21 16:41:40 2007 -0700 ext2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size /me goes debug this a bit more. Jan? -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/