Re: rfc: fuzz testing by direct writes to device

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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Michael <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please make sure you are running a very recent kernel. Btrfs is VERY
> active and fixes for things like this are going in all the time. Any
> related crash errors, kernel oopses, and exact methodology so we can
> reproduce would be useful.
> dmesg and uname -a would help us triage this and see what we need to fix.
> Mike

I did save debug information like this, on a separate filesystem no
less...unfortunately I was unable to sync and it disappeared when I
was forced to cold boot.  I don't have a spare machine available.

To reproduce:

1.  lvcreate vg --name lv --size 1G
2.  mkbtrfs -M /dev/vg/lv
3.  mkdir /mnt/test
4.  mount /dev/vg/lv /mnt/test
5.  dd bs=1024 count=1 < /dev/urandom > /tmp/foo
6.  sha1sum /tmp/foo > /mnt/test/scrubme
7.  sync (get /mnt/test/scrubme written to disk)
8.  sed -e "s/the_sha1_sum/something_else_of_same_length/" <
/dev/vg/lv > /dev/vg/lv
9.  cat /mnt/test/scrubme (returns I/O error as expected, probably
from a failed checksum)
9. btrfs scrub /mnt/test

This is when all hell breaks loose.

Will this be enough information to at least allow it to be reproduced
or check if the bug still exists?

> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Shentino <shentino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Also, since the problem prevented me from syncing my other filesystmes
>> I couldn't capture the debug info.
>>
>> It vanished during the cold boot still sitting in dirty page cache.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Shentino <shentino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > How effective would it be to directly write to the underlying device
>> > and then running tests to see if the corruption is properly detected?
>> >
>> > I just ran a fuzz test by syncing, and then manually corrupting a file
>> > with the help of a surgical sed (yes, the before and after patterns
>> > had fixed equal lengths).  First I got an I/O error (expected), then I
>> > ran scrub and got more problems (not ok), the system froze (not good),
>> > a reboot failed to mount the system again (worse), and then the fsck
>> > program dumped core.
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