JFFS2 locking issue on 3.14 + patches

[Michal Simek]

On 04/28/2014 06:51 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>> we are having this problem with JFFS2 rootfs. It is v3.14 kernel
>> with these 5 patches which cherry-picked from 3.15.
>>
>> 41bf1a2 jffs2: Fix crash due to truncation of csize
>> 3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
>> 01887a3 jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
>> 13b546d jffs2: avoid soft-lockup in jffs2_reserve_space_gc()
>> 3ead957 jffs2: remove from wait queue after schedule()
> 
> Have you bisected these? And possibly test the patches in isolation
> (there are only 5)?

From top to down - reverts on the top of these 5 patches.

HEAD: Locking issue I have sent in origin email and CRC problems

Reverting
41bf1a2 jffs2: Fix crash due to truncation of csize
Generates a lot of warnings like this.
[    6.250541] jffs2: warning: (682) jffs2_get_inode_nodes: Eep. No valid nodes for ino #261.
[    6.258732] jffs2: warning: (682) jffs2_do_read_inode_internal: no data nodes found for ino #261


Reverting one patch
3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
on the top of 5 patches
- lock issue is present but CRC issue is gone on uniprocessor system. CRC issue is present on SMP case

Reverting two patches
3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
01887a3 jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
on the top of 5 patches
- only locking issue is reported, CRC issue is gone on uniprocessor system


Reverting 3 patches
3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
01887a3 jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
13b546d jffs2: avoid soft-lockup in jffs2_reserve_space_gc()
on the top of 5 patches
- locking issue still present with CRC issue again and data problems.

[   18.959144] jffs2: notice: (630) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x0015348c: read 0x8fb195d5, calculated 0xbc622daa.
[   18.971009] jffs2: warning: (630) jffs2_do_read_inode_internal: no data nodes found for ino #392
[   18.979766] jffs2: Returned error for crccheck of ino #392. Expect badness...
[   39.152478] jffs2: notice: (630) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x00492cd8: read 0xe62c6036, calculated 0xf875522b.
[   39.167465] jffs2: warning: (630) jffs2_do_read_inode_internal: Truncating ino #822 to 41568 bytes failed because it only had 40960 bytes to start with!


Reverting 3 patches
3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
01887a3 jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
3ead957 jffs2: remove from wait queue after schedule()
on the top of 5 patches
- locking issue still present with CRC issue again and data problems.


Origin testing was done on zynq with qspi and I have also
retest it on microblaze and NOR flash and issue is just there.

Bisecting these five patches don't solve anything.

Locking issue was introduced 3.6-rc3 by this commit.
I will check CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER option.

commit a445f784ae5558a3da680aa6b39ed53c95a551c1
Author: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 10:10:07 2012 +0300

    JFFS2: fix unmount regression

    This patch fixes regression introduced by
    "8bdc81c jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super". We submit a delayed work in order
    to make sure the write-buffer is synchronized at some point. But we do not
    flush it when we unmount, which causes an oops when we unmount the file-system
    and then the delayed work is executed.

    This patch fixes the issue by adding a "cancel_delayed_work_sync()" infocation
    in the '->sync_fs()' handler. This will make sure the delayed work is canceled
    on sync, unmount and re-mount. And because VFS always callse 'sync_fs()' before
    unmounting or remounting, this fixes the issue.

    Reported-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
    Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org [3.5+]
    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
    Tested-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>


Thanks,
Michal

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