XFS filesystem corruption after update to Kernel 3.0.101-100.1

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 (SLES 11 SP4)

Situation

After upgrade to SLES11 SP4 Kernel 3.0.101-100.1 a XFS filesystem corruption may happen.
Typically the following messages will be logged:

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XFS (sdb6):
Internal error xfs_iformat(realtime) at line 345 of file
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-default-3.0.101/linux-3.0/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c. Caller 0xffffffffa047bcd0
kernel: [1255670.027036] 
kernel: [1255670.027039] Pid: 23028, comm: TraceSegmentCom
Not tainted 3.0.101-100-default #1
kernel: [1255670.027041] Call Trace:
kernel: [1255670.027083]  [<ffffffff81004b35>] dump_trace+0x75/0x300
kernel: [1255670.027096]  [<ffffffff81467783>] dump_stack+0x69/0x6f
kernel: [1255670.027162]  [<ffffffffa0471b12>] xfs_corruption_error+0x62/0xa0 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027228]  [<ffffffffa047ba7c>] xfs_iformat+0x3ec/0x570 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027266]  [<ffffffffa047bcd0>] xfs_iread+0xd0/0x1b0 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027300]  [<ffffffffa04768c8>] xfs_iget_cache_miss+0x58/0x1e0 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027332]  [<ffffffffa0476ec4>] xfs_iget+0x114/0x190 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027370]  [<ffffffffa0495728>] xfs_lookup+0xf8/0x120 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027419]  [<ffffffffa04a1712>] xfs_vn_lookup+0x42/0x90 [xfs]
kernel: [1255670.027469]  [<ffffffff8116a842>] d_alloc_and_lookup+0x42/0x80
kernel: [1255670.027477]  [<ffffffff8116b075>] do_lookup+0x2a5/0x3a0
kernel: [1255670.027484]  [<ffffffff8116e856>] path_lookupat+0x116/0x690
kernel: [1255670.027490]  [<ffffffff8116edff>] do_path_lookup+0x2f/0xe0
kernel: [1255670.027495]  [<ffffffff8116fdaf>] user_path_at_empty+0x9f/0xd0
kernel: [1255670.027502]  [<ffffffff81164350>] vfs_fstatat+0x50/0xb0
kernel: [1255670.027509]  [<ffffffff811644ff>] sys_newstat+0x1f/0x50
kernel: [1255670.027519]  [<ffffffff81472a72>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
kernel: [1255670.027554]  [<00007ff5226ead35>] 0x7ff5226ead34
kernel: [1255670.027556] XFS (sdb6): Corruption detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair

Resolution

This is now fixed in kernel release 3.0.101-104.2 (June 20th 2017) patch number 13160.

Cause

Additional Information

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