Re: GPF on access to presumably corrupted file

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:11:29AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Fri 31 Jan 2014 09:07:15 AM EST, Josef Bacik wrote:
> >
> >On 01/31/2014 02:24 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> >>The attached dmesg log shows the results of trying to cat a file on a
> >>BTRFS
> >>filesystem when running the latest Debian/Unstable kernel (upstream
> >>3.12.8
> >>with some Debian patches that probably aren't relevant to BTRFS).
> >>
> >>I've rebooted the Thinkpad in question and repeated the problem after a
> >>reboot.  So I am fairly sure that the problem isn't directly caused
> >>by memory
> >>corruption.  I presume that it's corruption on disk causing this
> >>repeatable
> >>problem and such corruption could be caused by a memory error (which is
> >>something I've had happen before on a different system).  But I don't
> >>think
> >>that such corruption should cause a GPF.
> >>
> >>So while I think we should consider the possibility that the
> >>filesystem was
> >>corrupted due to a hardware fault (of which there are several
> >>possibilities
> >>when dealing with a laptop) the inability to recover seems like a bug in
> >>BTRFS.
> >>
> >>When this happens every process that tries to access the file in
> >>question is
> >>reported as being stuck in D state.  Sometimes such processes respond
> >>to kill
> >>-9 (I thought that was impossible) and sometimes they remain until
> >>reboot.
> >>
> >This may be a bug we just fixed in the recent git pull, are you
> >running with compression?  If you are try the recent for-linus branch
> >from Chris and see if you still have the problem.  Thanks,
> >
> 
> It does look like one we fixed, even without compression please give
> for-linus a shot.

Yes it is the bug, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68411 .
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