ASSERT in xlog_find_verify_log_record during xfs/098

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Mar 1 14:45:38 CST 2016


On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:04:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Should that assert even be there?  Looks like it's gracefully
> handled, I don't see offhand that anything should have caught
> this corruption earlier, and we don't really want to bug on disk
> corruption.  Am I missing something?

We used to have a couple of these, especially in log recovery - whoever
wrote this code probably though trapping on these corruptions for
a debug kernel makes sense.

I'm fine with dropping them, and a little audit for more of them
might not hurt.



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