Kernel BUG in ext3 (2.4.18pre1)

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

I report this in the hope that it might be useful. My machine crashed 
yesterday with the following messages. It was sort of alive, but not 
responding to network connections and when I tried to log in as root, Init 
said it was unable to fork(). At that point I hit the reset switch.  If you 
need other info please ask.

System: Cyrix i586/333 with 32MB RAM, ALi Mobo. OS: RH7.2/server with 
kernel.org 2.4.18pre1 kernel + Speedtouch USB patches. System disk is a 
single Fujitsu 30Gb IDE disk runing ext3.

Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Assertion failure in 
__journal_file_buffer() at transaction.c:1935: "jh->b_jlist < 9"
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: kernel BUG at transaction.c:1935!
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: 
EIP:    0010:[__journal_file_buffer+72/476]    Not tainted
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0156d18>]    Not tainted
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: eax: 00000022   ebx: c035f820   ecx: 
c029cc20   edx: 00003e1b
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: esi: c0d0da60   edi: 00000000   ebp: 
00000008   esp: c0cf1e40
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Process python (pid: 15602, 
stackpage=c0cf1000)
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Stack: c0257da0 0000078f c035f820 
c05d9f80 c035f820 c10a4c00 c0155a58 c035f820
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:        c0d0da60 00000008 c10a4c00 
c05d9f80 c035f820 c10a4c94 00000302 00000000
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:        00000000 00000000 c0d0da60 
c0155b3c c05d9f80 c035f820 00000000 00000000
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Call Trace: 
[do_get_write_access+1268/1440] [journal_get_write_access+56/88] 
[ext3_reserve_inode_write+50/172] [ext3_mark_inode_dirty+26/52] 
[ext3_dirty_inode+182
/244]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Call Trace: [<c0155a58>] [<c0155b3c>] 
[<c014fa0a>] [<c014fa9e>] [<c014fb6e>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [__mark_inode_dirty+46/120] 
[update_atime+75/80] [do_generic_file_read+1031/1044] 
[generic_file_read+126/304] [file_read_actor+0/104] [sys_read+150/204]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c013ecca>] [<c0140073>] 
[<c01229c7>] [<c0122ca6>] [<c0122bc0>] [<c012e106>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [system_call+51/64]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c0106b83>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 8d 76 00 8b 43 14 
39 f0 74 39 85 c0 74 55 68
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:  <0>Assertion failure in journal_start() 
at transaction.c:226: "handle->h_transaction->t_journal == journal"
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: kernel BUG at transaction.c:226!
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: 
EIP:    0010:[journal_start+110/252]    Not tainted
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0154e4a>]    Not tainted
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: eax: 00000021   ebx: c05d9f80   ecx: 
c029cc20   edx: 000041e9
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: esi: c05d9f80   edi: c15220e0   ebp: 
c10a4e00   esp: c0cf1c28
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Process python (pid: 15602, 
stackpage=c0cf1000)
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Stack: c0257da0 000000e2 c05d9f80 
c1967c00 c15220e0 c0cf1cf8 c0cf0000 c014fb0d
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:        c10a4e00 00000001 c15220e0 
c1967c00 00000001 c013ecca c15220e0 c15220e0
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:        ffffffff c19a1ee0 c0124588 
c15220e0 00000001 c19a1ec0 c0000000 c19a1ee0
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Call Trace: [ext3_dirty_inode+85/244] 
[__mark_inode_dirty+46/120] [generic_file_write+812/1748] 
[ext3_file_write+70/76] [do_acct_process+552/568]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Call Trace: [<c014fb0d>] [<c013ecca>] 
[<c0124588>] [<c014b9ca>] [<c011934c>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [acct_process+25/40] [do_exit+97/492] 
[do_invalid_op+0/136] [die+82/84] [do_invalid_op+127/136] 
[__journal_file_buffer+72/476]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c0119375>] [<c0115ee9>] 
[<c0107334>] [<c010711e>] [<c01073b3>] [<c0156d18>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [vt_console_print+729/748] 
[vsnprintf+931/996] [call_console_drivers+225/232] 
[release_console_sem+46/120] [error_code+52/64] [__journal_file_buffer+72/476]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c01858f1>] [<c024382f>] 
[<c0113771>] [<c011396a>] [<c0106c94>] [<c0156d18>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [do_get_write_access+1268/1440] 
[journal_get_write_access+56/88] [ext3_reserve_inode_write+50/172] 
[ext3_mark_inode_dirty+26/52] [ext3_dirty_inode+182/244] [__
mark_inode_dirty+46/120]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c0155a58>] [<c0155b3c>] 
[<c014fa0a>] [<c014fa9e>] [<c014fb6e>] [<c013ecca>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [update_atime+75/80] 
[do_generic_file_read+1031/1044] [generic_file_read+126/304] 
[file_read_actor+0/104] [sys_read+150/204] [system_call+51/64]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:    [<c0140073>] [<c01229c7>] 
[<c0122ca6>] [<c0122bc0>] [<c012e106>] [<c0106b83>]
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel:
Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 90 ff 43 08 89 d8 
eb 79 6a 01 68 f0 00 00 00