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Oops on umount/mount (JFFS 1)

PATCH New Orjan Friberg 1 participant 2 messages Mar 10, 2003 – Mar 12, 2003 Memory technology devices (MTD)

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PATCH 1/1 Oops on umount/mount (JFFS 1)

(This message was originally sent to jffs-dev. Apologies for the dupe.)

The patch below takes care of a umount/mount-related oops I had. It happens when a JFFS 1 file system is mounted for the second time if CONFIG_JFFS_PROC_FS is on, due to jffs_proc_root being freed on a umount, but only being allocated once (at init). The patch below allocates jffs_proc_root each time the proc entry is registered. (In my case, besides corrupting a node, the bug also manifested itself by /proc/fs/jffs not showing up after the second mount.)

Index: inode-v23.c
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvs/linux/os/linux/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c,v retrieving revision 1.15

inode-v23.c 9 Mar 2003 17:57:31 -0000 renamed from inode-v23.c 18 Oct 2001 15:28:09 -0000 1.15 +0 -3
diff -u -p -r1.15 inode-v23.c
@@ -1742,9 +1742,6 @@ init_jffs_fs(void)
        printk(KERN_INFO "JFFS version " JFFS_VERSION_STRING
                ", (C) 1999, 2000  Axis Communications AB\n");
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_JFFS_PROC_FS
-       jffs_proc_root = proc_mkdir("jffs", proc_root_fs);
-#endif
        fm_cache = kmem_cache_create("jffs_fm", sizeof(struct jffs_fm),
                                     0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL);
        node_cache = kmem_cache_create("jffs_node",sizeof(struct jffs_node),

Index: jffs_proc.c
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvs/linux/os/linux/fs/jffs/jffs_proc.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1

jffs_proc.c 9 Mar 2003 17:57:31 -0000 renamed from jffs_proc.c 10 Oct 2001 15:16:00 -0000 1.1.1.1 +3 -0
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 jffs_proc.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int jffs_register_jffs_proc_dir(kdev_t d
        struct proc_dir_entry *part_layout = 0;
        struct proc_dir_entry *part_root = 0;
 
+        /* Needs to be allocated at each register since it's freed on unregister. */
+       jffs_proc_root = proc_mkdir("jffs", proc_root_fs);
+
        /* Allocate structure for local JFFS partition table */
        if (!(part_dir = (struct jffs_partition_dir *)
                kmalloc (sizeof (struct jffs_partition_dir), GFP_KERNEL))) {
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Orjan Friberg
Axis Communications AB
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PATCH 1/1 Oops on umount/mount (JFFS 1)

Quoted 6 lines · Orjan Friberg

The patch below takes care of a umount/mount-related oops I had. It happens when a JFFS 1 file system is mounted for the second time if CONFIG_JFFS_PROC_FS is on, due to jffs_proc_root being freed on a umount, but only being allocated once (at init). The patch below allocates jffs_proc_root each time the proc entry is registered. (In my case, besides corrupting a node, the bug also manifested itself by /proc/fs/jffs not showing up after the second mount.)

Is this ok to commit?

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Orjan Friberg
Axis Communications AB