Comment 71 for bug 1423672

This bug report is about ext4 metadata corruption on large (>=10TB) ext4 volumes.
This was also reported in 2014 [ http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=139878494527370&w=2 ]

I'm getting sporadic FS errors like this one:
(More of these i've pasted at https://8n1.org/10745/cc34)

| EXT4-fs error (device vdb): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:757:
| group 79842, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 10073 vs 10071
| free clusters
| Aborting journal on device vdb-8.

An e2fsck run then shows:
| Pass 5: Checking group summary information
| Block bitmap differences: +(2616281446--2616281447)
| Free blocks count wrong (170942497, counted=129906218).
| Free inodes count wrong (670863012, counted=670860975).

I've patched my kernel with WARN_ON(1); inserted in tactical places and caught
one such situation:

| EXT4-fs (vdb): pa ffff880016544888: logic 982168, phys. 2469410748, len 104
| EXT4-fs error (device vdb): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa:3773: group 75360, free 38, pa_free 36
| Aborting journal on device vdb-8.
| EXT4-fs (vdb): Remounting filesystem read-only
| ------------[ cut here ]------------
| WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1706 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3774 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa.isra.27+0x1cb/0x2c0()
| Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter xt_tcpudp ip6_tables
| nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables
| x_tables cirrus ttm drm_kms_helper drm kvm_intel kvm ppdev syscopyarea sysfillrect
| 8250_fintek serio_raw i2c_piix4 sysimgblt pvpanic parport_pc mac_hid nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl
| lockd grace sunrpc lp parport autofs4 psmouse floppy pata_acpi
| CPU: 1 PID: 1706 Comm: deluged Not tainted 3.19.8-ckt4 #1
| Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
| ffffffff81ab4fef ffff8800da1bb978 ffffffff817c3760 0000000000000007
| 0000000000000000 ffff8800da1bb9b8 ffffffff8107696a ffff8800da1bb9a8
| 0000000000000026 0000000000003825 0000000000003824 ffff880016544888
| Call Trace:
| [<ffffffff817c3760>] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
| [<ffffffff8107696a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8a/0xc0
| [<ffffffff81076a5a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
| [<ffffffff812b01bb>] ext4_mb_release_inode_pa.isra.27+0x1cb/0x2c0
| [<ffffffff812739df>] ? ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x26f/0x5f0
| [<ffffffff812b3c6a>] ext4_discard_preallocations+0x30a/0x490
| [<ffffffff8127b578>] ext4_da_update_reserve_space+0x178/0x1b0
| [<ffffffff812a9129>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xcd9/0xe50
| [<ffffffff8127b6d9>] ext4_map_blocks+0x129/0x570
| [<ffffffff8127e89d>] ? ext4_writepages+0x35d/0xca0
| [<ffffffff812ab3a9>] ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x69/0xe0
| [<ffffffff8127eac2>] ext4_writepages+0x582/0xca0
| [<ffffffff81187a4e>] do_writepages+0x1e/0x30
| [<ffffffff8117bbe9>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x59/0x60
| [<ffffffff8117bc4c>] filemap_write_and_wait+0x2c/0x60
| [<ffffffff8120903d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3fd/0x4e0
| [<ffffffff812091a1>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
| [<ffffffff817ca84d>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
| ---[ end trace c7de4d0d78cb95b6 ]---
| EXT4-fs error (device vdb) in ext4_writepages:2412: IO failure
| EXT4-fs (vdb): ext4_writepages: jbd2_start: 9223372036854775751 pages, ino 84149503; err -30

After this, the system started logging a lot of this same message:
| EXT4-fs error (device vdb): ext4_find_extent:900: inode #84149503: comm deluged:
| pblk 225181822 bad header/extent: invalid magic - magic 53fd, entries 37907,
| max 27407(0), depth 50401(0)

Ran e2fsck and got:
| Pass 5: Checking group summary information
| Block bitmap differences: +(1431556444--1431556445) +(2469410748-2469410749)
| Free blocks count wrong (134030133, counted=57970467).
| Free inodes count wrong (670746893, counted=670746452).

Which is usually the same output for fsck in these situations.

This server is a QEMU KVM virtual machine running on Intel x64 hardware.