On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:11:43AM +0000, fdman...@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com>
>
> At ctree.c:key_search(), the assertion that verifies the first key on a
> child extent buffer corresponds to the key at a specific slot in the
> parent has a disadvantage: we effectively hit a BUG_ON() which requires
> rebooting the machine later. It also does not tell any information about
> which extent buffer is affected, from which root, the expected and found
> keys, etc.
>
> However as of commit 581c1760415c48 ("btrfs: Validate child tree block's
> level and first key"), that assertion is not needed since at the time we
> read an extent buffer from disk we validate that its first key matches the
> key, at the respective slot, in the parent extent buffer. Therefore just
> remove the assertion at key_search().
>
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com>
Added to misc-next, thanks.
