UBI/UBIFS issue: corrupt empty space => switched to read-only mode

[Matteo Mattei]

Matteo Mattei <matteo.mattei <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am working hard on UBIFS to make it works on 2.6.32 and OMAP3530.
> 
> I already posted some requests to TI forum but I have no answers up to now:
> http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/linux/f/354/t/171839.aspx#627875
> 
> The error I get is this:
> 
> UBI: attaching mtd6 to ubi0
> UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
> UBI: logical eraseblock size: 126976 bytes
> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
> UBI: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048)
> UBI: data offset: 4096
> UBI: max. sequence number: 1621513
> UBI: attached mtd6 to ubi0
> UBI: MTD device name: "FileSystem"
> UBI: MTD device size: 847 MiB
> UBI: number of good PEBs: 6769
> UBI: number of bad PEBs: 7
> UBI: number of corrupted PEBs: 0
> UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
> UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
> UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
> UBI: number of user volumes: 1
> UBI: available PEBs: 0
> UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 6769
> UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 134
> UBI: max/mean erase counter: 2417/239
> UBI: image sequence number: 0
> UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 587
> UBIFS: recovery needed
> UBIFS error (pid 590): ubifs_scan: corrupt empty space at LEB 997:116771
> UBIFS error (pid 590): ubifs_scanned_corruption: corruption at LEB 997:116771
> UBIFS error (pid 590): ubifs_scan: LEB 997 scanning failed
> UBIFS error (pid 590): do_commit: commit failed, error -117
> UBIFS warning (pid 590): ubifs_ro_mode: switched to read-only mode, error -117
> UBIFS: recovery completed
> UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "ROOTFS"
> UBIFS: file system size: 839819264 bytes (820136 KiB, 800 MiB, 6614 LEBs)
> UBIFS: journal size: 33521664 bytes (32736 KiB, 31 MiB, 264 LEBs)
> UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0)
> UBIFS: default compressor: none
> UBIFS: reserved for root: 4952683 bytes (4836 KiB)
> 
> I already saw that in kernel 3.2.x a similar problem has been reported.
> Investigating I saw that the error occurred during the journal commit.
> 
> Do you have any hints where to investigate further or where to apply
> some changes to the sources to fix this issue?
> One more question, I saw that in scan.c of UBI driver the policy to
> handle corrupted blocks is to distinguish between powercuts and other
> reasons.
> In the latter case the block is put in corrupted list and no more
> recovered. A comment in the sources says that the block is left there
> for manual inspection.
> However my system is unattended... do you see anything bad to add also
> this kind of blocks to the erase list?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matteo
> 
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I have one more information about the problem...
Commenting the goto corrupted line in scan.c (inside ubifs) I was able
to recover a board with the previously reported error:


--- linux-2.6.32/fs/ubifs/scan.c        (revision 1892)
+++ linux-2.6.32/fs/ubifs/scan.c        (working copy)
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
                       if (!quiet)
                               ubifs_err("corrupt empty space at LEB %d:%d",
                                         lnum, offs);
-                       goto corrupted;
+                       //goto corrupted;
               }

       return sleb;


In this way I saw that the UBI layer has been able to recover later
the corrupted empty space.
What do you think about this workaround? Do you have a better way to do this?

Could it be an idea to mark this LEB to be erased and to search for
another LEB? However I understand that it is rather complex to do...
Has anybody an hint on this?

Thanks,

Matteo