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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Estelle HAMMACHE <estelle.hammache@st.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 & NAND failure
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:19:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100978366.7949.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419E1DE0.FDD5DEC0@st.com>

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:22 +0100, Estelle HAMMACHE wrote:
> 
> Here is an example of the obsolete node/refiled nextblock pb:
> - page size 512 bytes
> - start condition: wbuf contains 500 bytes
> jffs2_write_dnode call, total node size 700 bytes
> -->jffs2_flash_writev
> ------>fill up wbuf
> ------>donelen = 12
> ------>jffs2_flush_wbuf (succeeds)
> ------>c->mtd->writev_ecc to write 1 page - fails
> ------>nextblock is refiled (new code!)
> ------>*retlen = donelen   (= 12)
> -->add obsolete frag for dirtied space 
> ------> free raw node & return early because c->nextblock == 0
> -->probable segfault on (redundant?) jffs2_mark_node_obsolete
> -->retry.

This is the problem, surely? If we've refiled the nextblock, we should
return retlen == 0.

-- 
dwmw2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-20 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 17:15 JFFS2 & NAND failure Estelle HAMMACHE
2004-11-18 16:27 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-18 17:54   ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2004-11-19 13:17     ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-19 16:22       ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2004-11-20 18:57         ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-20 19:19         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-11-20 22:13           ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-09 14:57             ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-09 17:06               ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2004-12-15 12:33                 ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-02-02 16:21                   ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-04-04 12:58                   ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-04 13:58                     ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-04-04 14:47                       ` Artem B. Bityuckiy

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