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- Subject: Errors during initrd loading when / is on LVM over RAID
- From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:41:38 +0200
- Message-id: <200507290041.49606.aragorn@tiscali.nl>
Package: kernel Tags: patch After switching from a 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 kernel for an old desktop Iuse as a server, I noticed the following messages on console and kern.log. Note: the errors are not harmful, just ugly; the system boots normally. kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-686 kernel: Loaded 27390 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-686. kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.8. kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. kernel: ould not append to parent for /disc kernel: devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc last message repeated 151 times Cleaned for a missing \n in a printk and with added debug printk's in fs/devfs/base.c, this looks like: kernel: devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument, buf: . kernel: _devfs_append_entry: -EEXIST for :disc kernel: devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc (repeated) The last error is a consequence of the error in devfs_mk_dir, so can be ignored. The basic problem is that buf is empty. Tracing back I ended up in fs/partitions/check.c, which has the following code in function register_disk: /* No minors to use for partitions */ if (disk->minors == 1) { if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0') devfs_add_disk(disk); return; } /* always add handle for the whole disk */ devfs_add_partitioned(disk); This looks unlogical: why does the first statement check for empty disk->devfs_name and is the second one called blindly? Changing the last statement to: if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0') devfs_add_partitioned(disk); else printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: No devfs_name for %s.\n", __FUNCTION__, disk->disk_name); resulted in the errors disappearing and the following log output: kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d0. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d64. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d128. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d192. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d4. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d68. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d132. kernel: register_disk: No devfs_name for md_d196. (repeated to md_d255) I've debugged using kernel version 2.6.8, but a check showed this code is unchanged in 2.6.11 and 2.6.12. Please review my reasoning. If I'm correct, the attached patch may fix the errors (and fix the missing \n). If you think the patch is correct, I would appreciate advice how best to get it upstream. The other option would of course be that something is more fundamentally broken and that disk->devfs_name should be filled in these cases, but I doubt that. Cheers, FJP--- fs/partitions/check.c.orig 2005-05-19 12:52:23.000000000 +0200 +++ fs/partitions/check.c 2005-07-29 00:36:04.523385998 +0200 @@ -348,7 +348,8 @@ } /* always add handle for the whole disk */ - devfs_add_partitioned(disk); + if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0') + devfs_add_partitioned(disk); /* No such device (e.g., media were just removed) */ if (!get_capacity(disk)) --- fs/devfs/base.c.orig 2005-07-29 00:32:03.329992027 +0200 +++ fs/devfs/base.c 2005-07-29 00:32:52.000008934 +0200 @@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ va_start(args, fmt); n = vsnprintf(buf, 64, fmt, args); if (n >= 64 || !buf[0]) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: invalid argument.", __FUNCTION__); + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: invalid argument.\n", __FUNCTION__); return -EINVAL; }Attachment: pgpIpCNjL3tGZ.pgp
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- To: 320379-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: This bug is a fix to a dead part of the kernel
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:46:20 -0400
- Message-id: <20060821214620.GA6411@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
Since pre-2.6 kernels won't be in the next version of Debian, this bug is no longer fixable (the affected code is totally gone). Closing now. If there is a similar bug in Linux 2.6, please file a new bug. -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare!
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