Re: [BUG]2.6.27.y some contents lost after writing to mmaped file

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:38:57AM +0800, JiSheng Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I triggered a failure in an fs test with fsx-linux from ltp. It seems that
> fsx-linux failed at mmap->write sequence.
> 
> Tested kernel is 2.6.27.12 and 2.6.27.39

Does this work on any kernel you have tested?  Or is it a regression?

> Tested file system: ext3, tmpfs.
> IMHO, it impacts all file systems.
> 
> Some fsx-linux log is:
> 
> READ BAD DATA: offset = 0x2771b, size = 0xa28e
> OFFSET  GOOD    BAD     RANGE
> 0x287e0 0x35c9  0x15a9     0x80
> operation# (mod 256) for the bad datamay be 21
> ...
> 7828: 1257514978.306753 READ     0x23dba thru 0x25699 (0x18e0 bytes)
> 7829: 1257514978.306899 MAPWRITE 0x27eeb thru 0x2a516 (0x262c bytes)
>  ******WWWW
> 7830: 1257514978.307504 READ     0x2771b thru 0x319a8 (0xa28e bytes)
>  ***RRRR***
> Correct content saved for comparison
> ...

Are you sure that the LTP is correct?  It wouldn't be the first time it
wasn't...

thanks,

greg k-h

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