Bug 1073661 - kernel 3.13.5 causes ext4 disk corruption [NEEDINFO]
Summary: kernel 3.13.5 causes ext4 disk corruption
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fs-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-06 21:49 UTC by Brian Sipos
Modified: 2015-02-17 20:00 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 20:00:30 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:
jforbes: needinfo?


Attachments (Terms of Use)
some EXT4-fs error messages during the failure and afterward (7.17 KB, text/plain)
2014-03-06 22:38 UTC, Brian Sipos
no flags Details

Description Brian Sipos 2014-03-06 21:49:44 UTC
Description of problem:
A fresh install of Fedora 19 on a Lenovo T440p works fine, and boots properly consistently.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.12.11-201.fc19 has no problems
kernel-3.13.5-101.fc19 has this issue

How reproducible:
consistently, upon boot to 3.13.5 kernel


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 19
2. Reboot several times, no issues
3. Upgrade manually to kernel-3.12.11
4. Reboot several times, no issues
5. Run default software update to upgrade to latest packages system-wide
6. Reboot once with new kernel-3.13.5
7. Observe that boot fails with error messages related to EXT4 filesystem corruption
8. Reboot back to 3.12.11
9. Observe same filesystem corruption errors upon boot

Actual results:
The root filesystem is corrupted just by booting with new kernel

Expected results:
Filesystem should not be corrupted

Additional info:
This seems to be a very similar issue to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177520 with a different kernel version (same major/minor though).

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2014-03-06 21:52:09 UTC
Can you attach a picture or the log showing the ext4 error messages?

Comment 2 Brian Sipos 2014-03-06 22:08:45 UTC
I don't have the exact errors right now, it was some combination of "bad inode" type messages. I will try to create a sacrificial filesystem to test with on the same hardware. Would the initial errors be more helpful, or an fsck log after the corruption?

Comment 3 Brian Sipos 2014-03-06 22:38:32 UTC
Created attachment 871666 [details]
some EXT4-fs error messages during the failure and afterward

I did find some syslog error messages related to the earlier errors.
There are ellipses in the file to indicate other log messages between the FS error messages. All of the timestamped messages are from /var/log/messages on the host where the errors occurred.

Comment 4 Justin M. Forbes 2014-03-10 14:48:37 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 19 kernel bugs.

Fedora 19 has now been rebased to 3.13.5-100.fc19.  Please test this kernel update and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

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

Comment 5 Eric Sandeen 2014-03-10 15:52:00 UTC
This sounds like it's possibly a dup of bug #1067615

Comment 6 Brian Sipos 2014-03-10 16:10:19 UTC
It may be the same issue regarding the NVidia drivers causing issues. The disk in my T440p is not SSD, as in #1067615, but is a magnetic disk so the workaround that is proposed in that other bug does not apply (I think). I am not able to attempt an install with the new kernel this week, but may be able to attempt next week.

Comment 7 Eric Sandeen 2014-03-10 16:12:36 UTC
Could maybe test by running w/ a generic video driver?  *shrug* if it's video it's well out of my realm of expertise, I'm afraid.

Comment 8 Brian Sipos 2014-03-10 16:16:10 UTC
After I saw the problem the first time and found that 'archlinux' comment above, I did attempt to add "nouveau" kernel module to blacklist. But at that point it may have been to late as the disk errors had already started.

Comment 9 Sergio Basto 2014-03-11 00:14:03 UTC
Hi, after update my server with Fedora 19 , kernel update leads to kernel ata warning messages.

Comment 10 Justin M. Forbes 2014-05-21 19:31:10 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 19 kernel bugs.

Fedora 19 has now been rebased to 3.14.4-100.fc19.  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 20, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 20.

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

Comment 11 Jakub Jozwicki 2014-06-06 16:49:53 UTC
On the same hardware and Acer Aspire 4930 with Nvidia motherboard ext4 also get corrupted, btrfs reports CRC error after disk reading. So this might be memory corruption.

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