Bug 972985

Summary:	stale data for disconnected USB disks
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Przemek Klosowski <przemek>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, przemek
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Description Przemek Klosowski 2013-06-11 02:11:14 UTC

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Comment 1 Przemek Klosowski 2013-06-11 02:20:43 UTC

Description of problem:
The data of one USB drive persists in the system even though the drive is removed. Other USB drives see this data, including the size and paritioning scheme---e.g. refusing to write more data than the size of the original drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible? Not sure how to cause the problem. Once the problem exists, it is reproducible every time.

1. remove USB drive,
2. 'fdisk -l /dev/sdc' displays a  2GB drive with two partitions
3. dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null    reads 2GB of data
3927200+0 records in
3927200+0 records out
2010726400 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 22.5163 s, 89.3 MB/s

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2013-10-18 21:15:30 UTC

*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 18 kernel bugs.

Fedora 18 has now been rebased to 3.11.4-101.fc18.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you have moved on to Fedora 19, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 19.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2013-11-27 16:06:17 UTC

*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  

It has been over a month since we asked you to test the 3.11 kernel updates and let us know if your issue has been resolved or is still a problem. When this happened, the bug was set to needinfo.  Because the needinfo is still set, we assume either this is no longer a problem, or you cannot provide additional information to help us resolve the issue.  As a result we are closing with insufficient data. If this is still a problem, we apologize, feel free to reopen the bug and provide more information so that we can work towards a resolution

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 4 Przemek Klosowski 2014-06-23 16:00:02 UTC

I am sorry for not responding---I assumed that a closed issue doesn't need any further action. 

I have not seen this problem in multiple kernel releases, so I agree that it should be kept closed.

Should the status be changed from INSUFFICIENT_DATA? to what---WORKSFORME? CURRENTRELEASE?