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authorArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2013-03-14 10:49:23 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-12 09:38:43 -0700
commit0d18994cb19855aa6ea892985c19aa54e4192fb0 (patch)
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UBIFS: make space fixup work in the remount case
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/super.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 76e4e0566ad..d867bd97bc6 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1582,6 +1582,12 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs_info *c)
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;
@@ -1698,12 +1704,6 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs_info *c)
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;