Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758866AbXJXNeR (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:34:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756252AbXJXNeB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:34:01 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:46598 "EHLO duck.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755743AbXJXNeB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:34:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:59:00 +0200 From: Jan Kara To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Kamalesh Babulal Subject: Re: 2.6.23-git18: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory Message-ID: <20071024135900.GC2652@duck.suse.cz> References: <20071024131540.GV32058@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071024131540.GV32058@shadowen.org> 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: 1374 Lines: 37 Hello, On Wed 24-10-07 14:15:40, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > 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 Hmm, zero length entry in a root directory. Not nice. > 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. Hmm, I'd suspect that too ;) But I swear I actually tested the code ;) So what are you using the filesystem for (or do you get the error immediately when mounting)? How large is the filesystem? Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR - 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/