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    Subject[34-longterm 032/196] UBIFS: fix debugging failure in dbg_check_space_info
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    From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

    -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
    -------------------

    commit 7da6443aca9be29c6948dcbd636ad50154d0bc0c upstream.

    This patch fixes a debugging failure with which looks like this:
    UBIFS error (pid 32313): dbg_check_space_info: free space changed from 6019344 to 6022654

    The reason for this failure is described in the comment this patch adds
    to the code. But in short - 'c->freeable_cnt' may be different before
    and after re-mounting, and this is normal. So the debugging code should
    make sure that free space calculations do not depend on 'c->freeable_cnt'.

    A similar issue has been reported here:
    http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-April/034647.html

    This patch should fix it.

    For the -stable guys: this patch is only relevant for kernels 2.6.30
    onwards.

    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
    ---
    fs/ubifs/debug.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
    1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/fs/ubifs/debug.c b/fs/ubifs/debug.c
    index c2a68ba..923d697 100644
    --- a/fs/ubifs/debug.c
    +++ b/fs/ubifs/debug.c
    @@ -961,11 +961,39 @@ void dbg_dump_index(struct ubifs_info *c)
    void dbg_save_space_info(struct ubifs_info *c)
    {
    struct ubifs_debug_info *d = c->dbg;
    -
    - ubifs_get_lp_stats(c, &d->saved_lst);
    + int freeable_cnt;

    spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
    + memcpy(&d->saved_lst, &c->lst, sizeof(struct ubifs_lp_stats));
    +
    + /*
    + * We use a dirty hack here and zero out @c->freeable_cnt, because it
    + * affects the free space calculations, and UBIFS might not know about
    + * all freeable eraseblocks. Indeed, we know about freeable eraseblocks
    + * only when we read their lprops, and we do this only lazily, upon the
    + * need. So at any given point of time @c->freeable_cnt might be not
    + * exactly accurate.
    + *
    + * Just one example about the issue we hit when we did not zero
    + * @c->freeable_cnt.
    + * 1. The file-system is mounted R/O, c->freeable_cnt is %0. We save the
    + * amount of free space in @d->saved_free
    + * 2. We re-mount R/W, which makes UBIFS to read the "lsave"
    + * information from flash, where we cache LEBs from various
    + * categories ('ubifs_remount_fs()' -> 'ubifs_lpt_init()'
    + * -> 'lpt_init_wr()' -> 'read_lsave()' -> 'ubifs_lpt_lookup()'
    + * -> 'ubifs_get_pnode()' -> 'update_cats()'
    + * -> 'ubifs_add_to_cat()').
    + * 3. Lsave contains a freeable eraseblock, and @c->freeable_cnt
    + * becomes %1.
    + * 4. We calculate the amount of free space when the re-mount is
    + * finished in 'dbg_check_space_info()' and it does not match
    + * @d->saved_free.
    + */
    + freeable_cnt = c->freeable_cnt;
    + c->freeable_cnt = 0;
    d->saved_free = ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(c);
    + c->freeable_cnt = freeable_cnt;
    spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
    }

    @@ -982,12 +1010,15 @@ int dbg_check_space_info(struct ubifs_info *c)
    {
    struct ubifs_debug_info *d = c->dbg;
    struct ubifs_lp_stats lst;
    - long long avail, free;
    + long long free;
    + int freeable_cnt;

    spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
    - avail = ubifs_calc_available(c, c->min_idx_lebs);
    + freeable_cnt = c->freeable_cnt;
    + c->freeable_cnt = 0;
    + free = ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(c);
    + c->freeable_cnt = freeable_cnt;
    spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
    - free = ubifs_get_free_space(c);

    if (free != d->saved_free) {
    ubifs_err("free space changed from %lld to %lld",
    --
    1.7.9.3


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