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From: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
To: miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, bbrezillon@kernel.org, richard@nod.at,
	vigneshr@ti.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: ubi: eba.c: fix return value overwrite issue in try_write_vid_and_data()
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:14:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230226141406.GA32048@udknight> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230217165442.GA28288@udknight>

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 12:58:08AM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> The commit 2d78aee426d8 ("UBI: simplify LEB write and atomic LEB change code")
> adds helper function, try_write_vid_and_data(), to simplify the code, but this
> helper function has bug, it will return 0 (success) when ubi_io_write_vid_hdr()
> or the ubi_io_write_data() return error number (-EIO, etc), because the return
> value of ubi_wl_put_peb() will overwrite the original return value.
> 
> This issue will cause unexpected data loss issue, because the caller of this
> function and UBIFS willn't know the data is lost.
> 
> Fixes: 2d78aee426d8 ("UBI: simplify LEB write and atomic LEB change code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

Hi! Miquel Raynal

What is the status about this patch?

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-26 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-17 16:58 [PATCH] mtd: ubi: eba.c: fix return value overwrite issue in try_write_vid_and_data() Wang YanQing
2023-02-26 14:14 ` Wang YanQing [this message]
2023-02-26 15:52   ` Richard Weinberger
2023-03-20  2:44 ` Zhihao Cheng

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