ubifs : corruption after power cut test

[Matthieu CASTET]

Artem Bityutskiy a écrit :
> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:44 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:40 +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
>>> I manage to reproduce it with the backtrace [1].
>> Matthieu, your work-around patch or something very close should
>> certainly be applied to the UBIFS tree, but I still would like to find
>> out what exactly happened in your setup.
>>
>> I see 2 possibilities:
>>
>> 1. An error happened and 'ubifs_garbage_collect()' returned while
>> c->gc_lnum was -1. But in this case we should have switched to R/O mode,
>> and the master node would not be written. But may be for some reasons we
>> did not switch to R/O mode, dunno.
>>
>> 2. More likely scenario: in 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' we call
>> 'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()' directly, which can return while
>> c->gc_lnum is -1. And we do not handle this.
>>
>> Would you please be patient enough to reproduce the issue once again with
>> the following patch, which was created against the latest ubifs-2.6.git, but
>> you should be easily able to apply it to your tree.
> 
> Hi, any news?
> 
Not much, I was busy on another subject but I will try ASAP.


Matthieu

PS : any idea/comment on the handling of interrupted write page by 
UBI/UBIFS ?