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Prevent list corruption when handling write errors

PATCH In review Adrian Hunter 3 participants 3 messages Mar 29, 2007

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PATCH 1/1 Prevent list corruption when handling write errors

If a write error occurs, the affected block is placed on the bad_used_list. In the case that the write error occured when writing summary data the block was also being placed on the dirty_list, which caused list corruption and ultimately a soft lockup in jffs2_mark_node_obsolete. This fixes that.

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fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c | 5 +++++

1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c +0 -0
index d883769..c8b50de 100644
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ int jffs2_reserve_space_gc(struct jffs2_

static void jffs2_close_nextblock(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_eraseblock *jeb) {

+ if (c->nextblock == NULL) {
+ D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_close_nextblock: Erase block at 0x%08x has already been placed in a list\n",
+ jeb->offset));
+ return;
+ }

	/* Check, if we have a dirty block now, or if it was dirty already */
	if (ISDIRTY (jeb->wasted_size + jeb->dirty_size)) {
		c->dirty_size += jeb->wasted_size;
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Quoted 5 lines · Adrian Hunter

If a write error occurs, the affected block is placed on the bad_used_list. In the case that the write error occured when writing summary data the block was also being placed on the dirty_list, which caused list corruption and ultimately a soft lockup in jffs2_mark_node_obsolete. This fixes that.

I thougth that node obsoleting was disabled when summary is active?

Jocke

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Quoted 8 lines · Joakim Tjernlund
Quoted 5 lines · Adrian Hunter

If a write error occurs, the affected block is placed on the bad_used_list. In the case that the write error occured when writing summary data the block was also being placed on the dirty_list, which caused list corruption and ultimately a soft lockup in jffs2_mark_node_obsolete. This fixes that.

I thougth that node obsoleting was disabled when summary is active?

Of course not. On-flash obsoleting is disabled, but not in-RAM.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)