On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:00:58PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

On 9/18/17 4:31 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

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On 09/18/2017 09:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:26:05PM +0530, Abdul Haleem wrote:

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Hi,

A warning is triggered from:

file fs/iomap.c in function iomap_dio_rw

    if (ret)
        goto out_free_dio;

    ret = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
            start >> PAGE_SHIFT, end >> PAGE_SHIFT);

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 WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);

    ret = 0;

    inode_dio_begin(inode);

This is expected and an indication of a problematic workload - which
may be triggered by a fuzzer.

If it's expected, why don't we kill the WARN_ON_ONCE()? I get it all
the time running xfstests as well.

Because when a user reports a data corruption, the only evidence we
have that they are running an app that does something stupid is this
warning in their syslogs.  Tracepoints are not useful for replacing
warnings about data corruption vectors being triggered.

Is the full WARN_ON spew really helpful to us, though?  Certainly
the user has no idea what it means, and will come away terrified
but none the wiser.

Would a more informative printk_once() still give us the evidence
without the ZOMG I THINK I OOPSED that a WARN_ON produces?  Or do we 
want/need the backtrace?

backtrace is actually useful - that's how I recently learnt that
splice now supports direct IO.....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com