Re: [linux-lvm] EXT2-fs panic (device lvm(58,0)):

[Andreas Dilger]

Al Viro writes:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:35:05PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > The only remote possibility is in ext2_free_blocks() if block+count
> > > overflows a 32-bit unsigned value.  Only 2 places call ext2_free_blocks()
> > > with a count != 1, and ext2_free_data() looks to be OK.  The other
> > > possibility is that i_prealloc_count is bogus - that is it!  Nowhere
> > > is i_prealloc_count initialized to zero AFAICS.
> > >
> > Did you ever push this to Alan and/or Linus?  This looks pretty
> > important!
> 
> It isn't. Check fs/inode.c::clean_inode(). Specifically,
>         memset(&inode->u, 0, sizeof(inode->u));
> The thing is called both by get_empty_inode() and by get_new_inode() (the
> former - just before returning, the latter - just before calling
> ->read_inode()).

If this is the case, then all of the other zero initializations can be
removed as well.  I figured that if most of the fields needed to be
zeroed, then ones _not_ being zeroed would lead to this problem.

FYI Stephen, the original poster followed up that the problem was with
an IBM SCSI RAID card...

Cheers, Andreas
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