<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO - kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2721!" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112012#c8">Comment # 8</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO - kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2721!" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112012">bug 112012</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:robeholmes@gmail.com" title="Robert Holmes <robeholmes@gmail.com>"> Robert Holmes</a> <pre>(In reply to Lakshmi from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=112012#c7">comment #7</a>) > (In reply to Robert Holmes from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=112012#c6">comment #6</a>) > > There has been a patch submitted to -stable fixing (or at least working > > around) this issue: <a href="https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg340095.html">https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg340095.html</a> > > > > All that is left, presumably, is for it to be actually pulled into a 5.3.x > > release. > > What is the impact of this issue apart from warning in the log? If this was just the WARNING, I probably wouldn't have even noticed it in the first place. But the WARNING is just a quick sign that the bug is present, before things end up on a BUG later on. As I've reported initially, after the first (mostly harmless) WARNING, things run fine for a while -- maybe even a few days -- before another WARNING followed by a BUG happens: Oct 07 01:33:15 laptop kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Oct 07 01:33:15 laptop kernel: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2721! Oct 07 01:33:15 laptop kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... This BUG, as the previous commenter notes, causes processes to get stuck in D mode, as well as new processes becoming impossible to start. The system quickly becomes unusable, and requires a (hard) reboot.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are on the CC list for the bug.</li> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>