[BUG] assert in xfs_imap_to_bp, line 185

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Nov 8 11:06:07 CST 2011


On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:39:32AM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> Hi XFS Folks,
> 
> I am able to hit this assert consistently when running test 111 on recent
> (commit 9e4c109a) oss xfs bits:

That's expected - the test must only be run on non-debug kernels.  It
corrupt the inode, and then we read it.  A normal kernel shouldn't
panic, but for the debug kernel we settled on an assert for it.

I'm not sure it's a smart idea, and WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO might be
better in the end.




More information about the xfs mailing list