ubifs_recover_master_node: failed to recover master node

[Miquel Raynal]

Hi Chris,

On 29/10/2024 at 13:37:31 +13, Chris Packham <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently added support for the SPI-NAND controller on the RTL9302C SoC[1]. I did most of the work against Linux 6.11
> and it's working fine there. I recently rebased against the tip of Linus's tree (6.12-rc5) and found I was getting ubifs
> errors when mounting:
>
> [    1.255191] spi-nand spi1.0: Macronix SPI NAND was found.
> [    1.261283] spi-nand spi1.0: 256 MiB, block size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
> [    1.271134] 2 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi1.0
> [    1.278247] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "spi1.0":
> [    1.283631] 0x000000000000-0x00000f000000 : "user"
> [   20.481108] 0x00000f000000-0x000010000000 : "Reserved"
> [   72.240347] ubi0: scanning is finished
> [   72.270577] ubi0: attached mtd3 (name "user", size 240 MiB)
> [   72.276815] ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
> [   72.284537] ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
> [   72.292132] ubi0: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
> [   72.299885] ubi0: good PEBs: 1920, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
> [   72.306689] ubi0: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
> [   72.314747] ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 1/0, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 252642230
> [   72.324850] ubi0: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 1920, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
> [   72.370123] ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 141
> [   72.470740] UBIFS (ubi0:0): Mounting in unauthenticated mode
> [   72.490246] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 144
> [   72.528272] UBIFS error (ubi0:0 pid 143): ubifs_recover_master_node: failed to recover master node
> [   72.550122] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" stops
> [   72.710720] UBIFS (ubi0:0): Mounting in unauthenticated mode
> [   72.717447] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 149
> [   72.777602] UBIFS error (ubi0:0 pid 148): ubifs_recover_master_node: failed to recover master node
> [   72.787792] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" stops
>
> Full dmesg output is at[2]
>
> git bisect lead me to commit 11813857864f ("mtd: spi-nand: macronix: Continuous read support"). Reverting the blamed
> commit from 6.12-rc5 seems to avoid the problem. The flash chip on my board is a MX30LF2G28AD-TI. I'm not sure if there
> is a problem with 11813857864f or with my spi-mem driver that is
> exposed after support for continuous read is enabled.

Crap. I had a look, and TBH I don't know. The only thing I see in your
driver might be the DMA vs PIO choice. Could you try to always return
false from rtl_snand_dma_op()?

However you say you're using an MX30* device, this is a raw NAND chip,
SPI-NAND chips are I believe starting with MX35* in their IDs, no?

Thanks,
Miquèl