UBIFS does not mount after powerfail

[Richard Weinberger]

Manfred,

Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2017, 18:41:52 CET schrieb Manfred Spraul:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 11/28/2017 10:00 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Manfred,
> > 
> > 
> > Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2017, 23:03:28 CET schrieb Manfred Spraul:
> > 
> > I tied, but TBH I'm completely lost in all the data you throwing on me.
> 
> Understood, I generated way too much data.
> I have also confused all my coworkers :-(

No problem.
We will sort this out. :-)
 
> Let's keep it simple and concentrate on the
> garbage_collect_leb()/ubifs_scan issue.
> 
> > Let's recap, you trigger a corruption that happens only(!) when xattrs are
> > used?
> 
> Correct, I only see the corruption when xattr is used.

Good.

> > How is Fastmap involved in the game? If so, I want to know whether you can
> > trigger without Fastmap being enabled.
> 
> Correct, I have seen the corruption without FASTMAP.

Also Good.

> > Which one is the image that failed first with chk_fs enabled?
> > On a vanilla kernel...
> 
> I have used a modified MTDRAM: I have patched it so that it writes every
> ERASE and every WRITE into a log.
> Both the addresses and the data.
> First, I have created an initial image
> (ubiformat/ubiattach/ubimkvol/ubidetach).
> Then I did a dump of it (nanddump /dev/mtd0 > dump-before.bin)
> Then I enabled logging, and run the test load (ubiattach/mount/mount
> ecryptfs/<many touch/write/rm/mv commands>/umount/ubidetach).
> Then I created a dump of the final image. (nanddump /dev/mtd0 >
> dump-after.bin)

Okay.

> Then the obvious cross checks:
> Initial image+apply all commands from the log is identical to the final
> image.
> 
> Now I can use the log to create virtual power fail events:
> 
> What if a power failure happens after 168168 commands?
> Image:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/ubifs/image-168168.bin/d
> ownload
> 
> Logfile of a mount without chk_fs:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/ubifs/r-168168.txt/downl
> oad
> 
> What was the last write command?
> FUNC_WRITE_CHK(addr=0xd61000, len=0x800)
> 
> What would have been the next write command:
> FUNC_WRITE_CHK(addr=0xd61800, len=0x800)
> 
> Image after that command:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/ubifs/image-168169.bin/d
> ownload

Which file contains the MTD with chk_fs being enabled?

What did you set for CONFIG_MTDRAM_TOTAL_SIZE and CONFIG_MTDRAM_ERASE_SIZE?

> 
> Just to clarify:
> I have simulated power fails.
> A bit like ubi_dbg_power_cut, but instead of stopping further
> writes/erase commands, I created a log file.
> And now I can replay the log to an arbitrary point, and then mount the
> result.
> I have a total of 5 logs, and from these 5 logs, I did around 100k
> replays and mounted the results.
> 
> --
>      Manfred
> 
> P.S.: I'm doing final polishing of the modifications to mtdram. As soon
> as I have the internal release, I will send it to linux-mtd.

Wonderful. Your tool seems to be a good stresstest.
I'd love to see it upstream.

> P.P.S.: To avoid any brown paperbag bugs: mtd->_erase and mtd->_write
> are allowed to sleep, correct? At least, st_spi_fsm contains mutex_lock().

I always assumed that they can sleep and everything else would surprise me.

Thanks,
//richard