2.5.51-mm2

This is very funny.

mke2fs -j -O dir_index -J size=192 -T news -N 1000100 atest3 1000000
(creat & write 1 byte to 1000000 files)

free space on device became 0 and voila

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5a5a5b9e
 printing eip:
c01a5ed2
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[<c01a5ed2>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010202

EIP is at ext3_get_inode_loc+0x32/0x1a0
eax: c5e9a2d0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 5a5a5a5a
esi: 5a5a5a5a edi: c8999ec8 ebp: c5e9a2d0 esp: c8999e5c
ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
Process atest3 (pid: 1482, threadinfo=c8998000 task=c7f17960)

Stack: c5e9a060 c0146111 cbd389b0 c5e9a240 ca50f1f4 cbd32c00 00000000 ca50f1f4
       c8999ec8 c5e9a2d0 c01a6c91 c5e9a2d0 c8999ec8 ffffffe4 c57fe3ec cb5b30d0
       c01aca2d cbd389b0 c5e9a244 c8999ec8 c5e9a2d0 ca50f1f4 cb5b30d0 c01a6d7b
Call Trace:
 [<c0146111>] cache_free_debugcheck+0x131/0x1c0
 [<c01a6c91>] ext3_reserve_inode_write+0x31/0xf0
 [<c01aca2d>] ext3_destroy_inode+0x1d/0x30
 [<c01a6d7b>] ext3_mark_inode_dirty+0x2b/0x60
 [<c01aa03b>] ext3_add_nondir+0x5b/0x60
 [<c01aa1ae>] ext3_create+0x16e/0x230
 [<c016eae7>] permission+0x57/0x70
 [<c016ffd6>] vfs_create+0xb6/0x130
 [<c0170659>] open_namei+0x3b9/0x420
 [<c015da53>] filp_open+0x43/0x70
 [<c015df5b>] sys_open+0x5b/0x90
 [<c015dfaf>] sys_creat+0x1f/0x30
 [<c010998f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Code: 8b 86 44 01 00 00 3b 50 50 72 0d 8b 9e 44 01 00 00 8b 43 2c

Paul P 'Stingray' Komkoff 'Greatest' Jr /// (icq)23200764 /// (http)stingr.net
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Actually it's very bad. Thanks for reporting this.

Here's a fix:

If ext3_add_nondir() fails it will do an iput() of the inode. But we continue to run ext3_mark_inode_dirty() against the potentially-freed inode. This oopses when slab poisoning is enabled.

Fix it so that we only run ext3_mark_inode_dirty() if the inode was successfully instantiated.

 fs/ext3/namei.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -1566,8 +1566,11 @@ static int ext3_add_nondir(handle_t *han
 {
 	int err = ext3_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode);
 	if (!err) {
-		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
-		return 0;
+		err = ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+		if (!err) {
+			d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+			return 0;
+		}
 	}
 	ext3_dec_count(handle, inode);
 	iput(inode);

@@ -1609,7 +1612,6 @@ static int ext3_create (struct inode * d
 		else
 			inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ext3_aops;
 		err = ext3_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
-		ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 	}
 	ext3_journal_stop(handle, dir);
 	unlock_kernel();

@@ -1642,7 +1644,6 @@ static int ext3_mknod (struct inode * di
 		inode->i_op = &ext3_special_inode_operations;
 #endif
 		err = ext3_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
-		ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 	}
 	ext3_journal_stop(handle, dir);
 	unlock_kernel();

@@ -2105,7 +2106,6 @@ static int ext3_symlink (struct inode * 
 	}
 	EXT3_I(inode)->i_disksize = inode->i_size;
 	err = ext3_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
-	ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 out_stop:
 	ext3_journal_stop(handle, dir);
 	unlock_kernel();

@@ -2140,7 +2140,6 @@ static int ext3_link (struct dentry * ol
 	atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
 
 	err = ext3_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
-	ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 	ext3_journal_stop(handle, dir);
 	unlock_kernel();
 	return err;

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