Re: Kernel 2.6.14.2 - Hard link count is wrong

[Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>]

Hello, Massimiliano, Hi Daniel!

Massimiliano Hofer wrote:
> I'm back. First of all I beg your pardon for blaming 2.6.14.2, I forgot I 
> rebooted with 2.6.13.4.

I'm indeed working on 2.6.14.2 and I get the problem with findutils 4.2.20 and
up. I've checked my system's reiserfs partition... no problems. Otherwise,
the machine is pretty simple:
/$ mount
/dev/hda1 on / type reiserfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

/$ find --version
GNU find version 4.2.20
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled)

/$ find |grep smb.conf
./etc/samba/smb.conf.default
./etc/samba/smb.conf
./usr/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

And after an update to stock:

/$ find --version
GNU find version 4.2.26
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION

It's still the same:

/$ find |grep smb.conf
./etc/samba/smb.conf.default
./etc/samba/smb.conf
./usr/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

The Patch, Daniel mentioned didn't make it into the latest findutils-4.2.26, but if
I re-apply it manually (attachment), it tells me:

/$ find --version
GNU find version 4.2.26-ck
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION

/$ find |grep smb.conf
./etc/samba/smb.conf.default
./etc/samba/smb.conf
./usr/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz
find: WARNING: Hard link count (44) is wrong for ./proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on fid's -noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

So, I guess that something in /proc is messed up a little.
Anymore checks I can do?

> Anyway I couldn't reproduce the bug in 2.6.14.2, but it is easily reproducible 
> with 2.6.13.4.
> Compiling pcmcia in the kernel (but leaving yenta and 8139too as a module) I 
> never get errors on /proc/bus, but I get the same results on /proc/bus/pci.
> It seems a broader hotplug problem. Of corse it could be already solved in 
> 2.6.14, as I can't reproduce it.

Well, I don't think so. I can easily reproduce that on my machine here:

$ uname -a
Linux zefix 2.6.14.2 #2 Tue Nov 15 19:08:57 CET 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 300.715
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips        : 602.39

$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
 Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
   Class 0600: PCI device 8086:7180 (rev 3).
     Master Capable.  Latency=64.
     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe7ffffff].
 Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
   Class 0604: PCI device 8086:7181 (rev 3).
     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.
 Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
   Class 0601: PCI device 8086:7110 (rev 2).
 Bus  0, device   4, function  1:
   Class 0101: PCI device 8086:7111 (rev 1).
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.
     I/O at 0xb800 [0xb80f].
 Bus  0, device   4, function  2:
   Class 0c03: PCI device 8086:7112 (rev 1).
     IRQ 5.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.
     I/O at 0xb400 [0xb41f].
 Bus  0, device   4, function  3:
   Class 0680: PCI device 8086:7113 (rev 2).
     IRQ 9.
 Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
   Class 0200: PCI device 10ec:8139 (rev 16).
     IRQ 10.
     Master Capable.  Latency=33.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
     I/O at 0xb000 [0xb0ff].
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1800000 [0xe18000ff].
 Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
   Class 0401: PCI device 1274:5880 (rev 2).
     IRQ 5.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
     I/O at 0xa800 [0xa83f].
 Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
   Class 0300: PCI device 1002:475a (rev 58).
     IRQ 11.
     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.
     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe3ffffff].
     I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000 [0xe2000fff].

Hmm, okay, I see, the PCIID's are missing. :-(
That's basically a Intel PIIX4 chipset, RTL8139, and a ATI Rage II card.
Can we narrow down the problem a little? Hmm, do you need more info?

Thanks so far,
best greets,
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--- findutils-4.2.26/find/find.c~	2005-11-11 08:41:37.000000000 +0100
+++ findutils-4.2.26/find/find.c	2005-11-21 11:47:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -1947,8 +1947,8 @@ process_dir (char *pathname, char *name,
 		   * doesn't really handle hard links with Unix semantics.
 		   * In the latter case, -noleaf should be used routinely.
 		   */
-		  error(0, 0, _("WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for %s: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched."),
-			parent);
+		  error(0, 0, _("WARNING: Hard link count (%d) is wrong for %s: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched."),
+			statp->st_nlink, pathname);
 		  state.exit_status = 1; /* We know the result is wrong, now */
 		  options.no_leaf_check = true;	/* Don't make same
 						   mistake again */