From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Correctly initialize c->min_log_bytes
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:42:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190731074244.2msdjvuokoci2lxx@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190725205627.31313-1-richard@nod.at>
Hello Richard,
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:56:27PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Currently on a freshly mounted UBIFS, c->min_log_bytes is 0.
> This can lead to a log overrun and make commits fail.
>
> Recent kernels will report the following assert:
> UBIFS assert failed: c->lhead_lnum != c->ltail_lnum, in fs/ubifs/log.c:412
>
> c->min_log_bytes can have two states, 0 and c->leb_size.
> It controls how much bytes of the log area are reserved for non-bud
> nodes such as commit nodes.
>
> After a commit it has to be set to c->leb_size such that we have always
> enought space for a commit. While a commit runs it can be 0 to make the
> remaining bytes of the log available to writers.
>
> Having it set to 0 right after mount is wrong since no space for commits
> is reserved.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
I assume you care for applying this to mainline? I wonder it isn't in
next yet?!
Best regards
Uwe
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-25 20:56 [PATCH] ubifs: Correctly initialize c->min_log_bytes Richard Weinberger
2019-07-25 21:03 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-07-25 21:04 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-07-31 7:42 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2019-07-31 8:07 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-07-31 8:22 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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