[PATCH] ubi: wl: Close down wear-leveling before nand is suspended

[Mårten Lindahl]

On 9/9/24 05:20, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> 在 2024/9/8 3:28, Mårten Lindahl 写道:
>> If a reboot/shutdown signal with double force (-ff) is triggered when
>> the erase worker or wear-leveling worker function runs we may end up in
>> a race condition since the MTD device gets a reboot notification and
>> suspends the nand flash before the erase or wear-leveling is done. This
>> will reject all accesses to the flash with -EBUSY.
>>
>> Sequence for the erase worker function:
>>
>>     systemctl reboot -ff           ubi_thread
>>
>>                                  do_work
>>   __do_sys_reboot
>>     blocking_notifier_call_chain
>>       mtd_reboot_notifier
>>         nand_shutdown
>>           nand_suspend
>>                                    __erase_worker
>>                                      ubi_sync_erase
>>                                        mtd_erase
>>                                          nand_erase_nand
>>
>>                                            # Blocked by suspended chip
>>                                            nand_get_device
>>                                              => EBUSY
>>
>> Similar sequence for the wear-leveling function:
>>
>>     systemctl reboot -ff           ubi_thread
>>
>>                                  do_work
>>   __do_sys_reboot
>>     blocking_notifier_call_chain
>>       mtd_reboot_notifier
>>         nand_shutdown
>>           nand_suspend
>>                                    wear_leveling_worker
>>                                      ubi_eba_copy_leb
>>                                        ubi_io_write
>>                                          mtd_write
>>                                            nand_write_oob
>>
>>                                              # Blocked by suspended chip
>>                                              nand_get_device
>>                                                => EBUSY
>>
>>   systemd-shutdown[1]: Rebooting.
>>   ubi0 error: ubi_io_write: error -16 while writing 2048 bytes to PEB
>>   CPU: 1 PID: 82 Comm: ubi_bgt0d Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O
>>   (unwind_backtrace) from [<80107b9f>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc)
>>   (show_stack) from [<8033641f>] (dump_stack_lvl+0x2b/0x34)
>>   (dump_stack_lvl) from [<803b7f3f>] (ubi_io_write+0x3ab/0x4a8)
>>   (ubi_io_write) from [<803b817d>] (ubi_io_write_vid_hdr+0x71/0xb4)
>>   (ubi_io_write_vid_hdr) from [<803b6971>] 
>> (ubi_eba_copy_leb+0x195/0x2f0)
>>   (ubi_eba_copy_leb) from [<803b939b>] 
>> (wear_leveling_worker+0x2ff/0x738)
>>   (wear_leveling_worker) from [<803b86ef>] (do_work+0x5b/0xb0)
>>   (do_work) from [<803b9ee1>] (ubi_thread+0xb1/0x11c)
>>   (ubi_thread) from [<8012c113>] (kthread+0x11b/0x134)
>>   (kthread) from [<80100139>] (ret_from_fork+0x11/0x38)
>>   Exception stack(0x80c43fb0 to 0x80c43ff8)
>>   ...
>>   ubi0 error: ubi_dump_flash: err -16 while reading 2048 bytes from PEB
>>   ubi0 error: wear_leveling_worker: error -16 while moving PEB 246 to 
>> PEB
>>   ubi0 warning: ubi_ro_mode.part.0: switch to read-only mode
>>   ...
>>   ubi0 error: do_work: work failed with error code -16
>>   ubi0 error: ubi_thread: ubi_bgt0d: work failed with error code -16
>
Hi Zhihao Cheng!
> Yes, I noticed these types of messages too before kernel v5.18. Since 
> commit 013e6292aaf5e4b0("mtd: rawnand: Simplify the locking"), the 
> behavior of nand_get_device() is changed. A process who is invoking 
> nand_get_device() during rebooting won't be stucked, it will get an 
> EBUSY error code, that's why we see the above messages from UBI module.
> After commit 8cba323437a49a4("mtd: rawnand: protect access to rawnand 
> devices while in suspend"), the behavior of nand_get_device() is 
> changed back. A process who is invoking nand_get_device() during 
> rebooting will be stucked again, so there should be no error messages 
> in UBI layer.
> So, is your kernel version lower than v5.18?
>
Thanks for identifying this! Yes, the device I'm testing runs v5.15. I 
can't upgrade it to newer kernels so I backported a lot of ubi patches 
from mainline, but it seems I missed commit 8cba323437a49a4 which indeed 
seems to solve the problem.

Again, thank you very much!

Kind regards

Mårten