Crash (ext3 ) during 2.6.29-rc6 boot

[Paul Mackerras]

Andrew Morton writes:

> It looks like we died in ext3_xattr_block_get():
> 
> 		memcpy(buffer, bh->b_data + le16_to_cpu(entry->e_value_offs),
> 		       size);
> 
> Perhaps entry->e_value_offs is no good.  I wonder if the filesystem is
> corrupted and this snuck through the defenses.
> 
> I also wonder if there is enough info in that trace for a ppc person to
> be able to determine whether the faulting address is in the source or
> destination of the memcpy() (please)?

It appears to have faulted on a load, implicating the source.  The
address being referenced (0xc00000003f380000) doesn't look
outlandish.  I wonder if this kernel has CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned
on, and what page size is selected?

Paul.