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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>,
	Mark Jackson <mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk>
Subject: [ 02/19] UBIFS: make space fixup work in the remount case
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:50:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410225027.073747912@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130410225026.833809117@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

commit 67e753ca41782913d805ff4a8a2b0f60b26b7915 upstream.

The UBIFS space fixup is a useful feature which allows to fixup the "broken"
flash space at the time of the first mount. The "broken" space is usually the
result of using a "dumb" industrial flasher which is not able to skip empty
NAND pages and just writes all 0xFFs to the empty space, which has grave
side-effects for UBIFS when UBIFS trise to write useful data to those empty
pages.

The fix-up feature works roughly like this:
1. mkfs.ubifs sets the fixup flag in UBIFS superblock when creating the image
   (see -F option)
2. when the file-system is mounted for the first time, UBIFS notices the fixup
   flag and re-writes the entire media atomically, which may take really a lot
   of time.
3. UBIFS clears the fixup flag in the superblock.

This works fine when the file system is mounted R/W for the very first time.
But it did not really work in the case when we first mount the file-system R/O,
and then re-mount R/W. The reason was that we started the fixup procedure too
late, which we cannot really do because we have to fixup the space before it
starts being used.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Mark Jackson <mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ubifs/super.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1583,6 +1583,12 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs
 	c->remounting_rw = 1;
 	c->ro_mount = 0;
 
+	if (c->space_fixup) {
+		err = ubifs_fixup_free_space(c);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	}
+
 	err = check_free_space(c);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
@@ -1699,12 +1705,6 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs
 		err = dbg_check_space_info(c);
 	}
 
-	if (c->space_fixup) {
-		err = ubifs_fixup_free_space(c);
-		if (err)
-			goto out;
-	}
-
 	mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex);
 	return err;
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-10 22:50 [ 00/19] 3.0.73-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 01/19] ASoC: dma-sh7760: Fix compile error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 03/19] reiserfs: Fix warning and inode leak when deleting inode with xattrs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-11  7:33   ` Pawel Zawora
2013-04-11 19:04     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 04/19] ALSA: hda - bug fix on return value when getting HDMI ELD info Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 05/19] ALSA: hda - fix typo in proc output Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 06/19] ext4: fixup 64-bit divides in 3.0-stable backport of upstream fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 07/19] libata: Use integer return value for atapi_command_packet_set Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 08/19] libata: Set max sector to 65535 for Slimtype DVD A DS8A8SH drive Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 09/19] alpha: Add irongate_io to PCI bus resources Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 10/19] ftrace: Consistently restore trace function on sysctl enabling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 11/19] powerpc: pSeries_lpar_hpte_remove fails from Adjunct partition being performed before the ANDCOND test Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 12/19] spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 13/19] crypto: gcm - fix assumption that assoc has one segment Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 14/19] block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 15/19] thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal class Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 16/19] mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 17/19] x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 18/19] Revert "mwifiex: cancel cmd timer and free curr_cmd in shutdown process Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-10 22:50 ` [ 19/19] rt2x00: rt2x00pci_regbusy_read() - only print register access failure once Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-11 16:29 ` [ 00/19] 3.0.73-stable review Shuah Khan

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