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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/mtd/ubi, branch v5.4.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ubi: block: Warn if volume size is not multiple of 512</title>
<updated>2019-09-15T20:12:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-01T20:32:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
If volume size is not a multiple of 512, ubi block cuts
off the last bytes of an volume since the block layer works
on 512 byte sectors.
This can happen especially on NOR flash with minimal io
size of 1.

To avoid unpleasant surprises, print a warning.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
If volume size is not a multiple of 512, ubi block cuts
off the last bytes of an volume since the block layer works
on 512 byte sectors.
This can happen especially on NOR flash with minimal io
size of 1.

To avoid unpleasant surprises, print a warning.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: ubi_wl_get_peb: Increase the number of attempts while getting PEB</title>
<updated>2019-09-15T19:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-10T09:57:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8615b94f029a4fb4306d3512aaf1c45f5fc24d4b'/>
<id>8615b94f029a4fb4306d3512aaf1c45f5fc24d4b</id>
<content type='text'>
Running stress test io_paral (A pressure ubi test in mtd-utils) on an
UBI device with fewer PEBs (fastmap enabled) may cause ENOSPC errors and
make UBI device read-only, but there are still free PEBs on the UBI
device. This problem can be easily reproduced by performing the following
steps on a 2-core machine:
  $ modprobe nandsim first_id_byte=0x20 second_id_byte=0x33 parts=80
  $ modprobe ubi mtd="0,0" fm_autoconvert
  $ ./io_paral /dev/ubi0

We may see the following verbose:
(output)
  [io_paral] update_volume():108: failed to write 380 bytes at offset
  95920 of volume 2
  [io_paral] update_volume():109: update: 97088 bytes
  [io_paral] write_thread():227: function pwrite() failed with error 28
  (No space left on device)
  [io_paral] write_thread():229: cannot write 15872 bytes to offs 31744,
  wrote -1
(dmesg)
  ubi0 error: ubi_wl_get_peb [ubi]: Unable to get a free PEB from user WL
  pool
  ubi0 warning: ubi_eba_write_leb [ubi]: switch to read-only mode
  CPU: 0 PID: 2027 Comm: io_paral Not tainted 5.3.0-rc2-00001-g5986cd0 #9
  ubi0 warning: try_write_vid_and_data [ubi]: failed to write VID header
  to LEB 2:5, PEB 18
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0
  -0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x85/0xba
    ubi_eba_write_leb+0xa1e/0xa40 [ubi]
    vol_cdev_write+0x307/0x520 [ubi]
    vfs_write+0xfa/0x280
    ksys_pwrite64+0xc5/0xe0
    __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x22/0x30
    do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x440

In function ubi_wl_get_peb, the operation of filling the pool
(ubi_update_fastmap) with free PEBs and fetching a free PEB from the pool
is not atomic. After thread A filling the pool with free PEB, free PEB may
be taken away by thread B. When thread A checks the expression again, the
condition is still unsatisfactory. At this time, there may still be free
PEBs on UBI that can be filled into the pool.

This patch increases the number of attempts to obtain PEB. An extreme
case (No free PEBs left after creating test volumes) has been tested on
different type of machines for 100 times. The biggest number of attempts
are shown below:

             x86_64     arm64
  2-core        4         4
  4-core        8         4
  8-core        4         4

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
Running stress test io_paral (A pressure ubi test in mtd-utils) on an
UBI device with fewer PEBs (fastmap enabled) may cause ENOSPC errors and
make UBI device read-only, but there are still free PEBs on the UBI
device. This problem can be easily reproduced by performing the following
steps on a 2-core machine:
  $ modprobe nandsim first_id_byte=0x20 second_id_byte=0x33 parts=80
  $ modprobe ubi mtd="0,0" fm_autoconvert
  $ ./io_paral /dev/ubi0

We may see the following verbose:
(output)
  [io_paral] update_volume():108: failed to write 380 bytes at offset
  95920 of volume 2
  [io_paral] update_volume():109: update: 97088 bytes
  [io_paral] write_thread():227: function pwrite() failed with error 28
  (No space left on device)
  [io_paral] write_thread():229: cannot write 15872 bytes to offs 31744,
  wrote -1
(dmesg)
  ubi0 error: ubi_wl_get_peb [ubi]: Unable to get a free PEB from user WL
  pool
  ubi0 warning: ubi_eba_write_leb [ubi]: switch to read-only mode
  CPU: 0 PID: 2027 Comm: io_paral Not tainted 5.3.0-rc2-00001-g5986cd0 #9
  ubi0 warning: try_write_vid_and_data [ubi]: failed to write VID header
  to LEB 2:5, PEB 18
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0
  -0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x85/0xba
    ubi_eba_write_leb+0xa1e/0xa40 [ubi]
    vol_cdev_write+0x307/0x520 [ubi]
    vfs_write+0xfa/0x280
    ksys_pwrite64+0xc5/0xe0
    __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x22/0x30
    do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x440

In function ubi_wl_get_peb, the operation of filling the pool
(ubi_update_fastmap) with free PEBs and fetching a free PEB from the pool
is not atomic. After thread A filling the pool with free PEB, free PEB may
be taken away by thread B. When thread A checks the expression again, the
condition is still unsatisfactory. At this time, there may still be free
PEBs on UBI that can be filled into the pool.

This patch increases the number of attempts to obtain PEB. An extreme
case (No free PEBs left after creating test volumes) has been tested on
different type of machines for 100 times. The biggest number of attempts
are shown below:

             x86_64     arm64
  2-core        4         4
  4-core        8         4
  8-core        4         4

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: Don't do anchor move within fastmap area</title>
<updated>2019-09-15T19:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-25T20:46:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8596813a117f61db2e74c449ea1436e63d096323'/>
<id>8596813a117f61db2e74c449ea1436e63d096323</id>
<content type='text'>
To make sure that Fastmap can use a PEB within the first 64
PEBs, UBI moves blocks away from that area.
It uses regular wear-leveling for that job.

An anchor move can be triggered if no PEB is free in this area
or because of anticipation. In the latter case it can happen
that UBI decides to move a block but finds a free PEB
within the same area.
This case is in vain an increases only erase counters.

Catch this case and cancel wear-leveling if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
To make sure that Fastmap can use a PEB within the first 64
PEBs, UBI moves blocks away from that area.
It uses regular wear-leveling for that job.

An anchor move can be triggered if no PEB is free in this area
or because of anticipation. In the latter case it can happen
that UBI decides to move a block but finds a free PEB
within the same area.
This case is in vain an increases only erase counters.

Catch this case and cancel wear-leveling if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 286</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:36:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-29T14:18:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=50acfb2b76e19f73270fef9a32726c7e18d08ec3'/>
<id>50acfb2b76e19f73270fef9a32726c7e18d08ec3</id>
<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation version 2 this program is distributed
  in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without
  even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a
  particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more
  details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 97 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.025053186@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation version 2 this program is distributed
  in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without
  even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a
  particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more
  details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 97 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.025053186@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1a59d1b8e05ea6ab45f7e18897de1ef0e6bc3da6'/>
<id>1a59d1b8e05ea6ab45f7e18897de1ef0e6bc3da6</id>
<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ec8f24b7faaf3d4799a7c3f4c1b87f6b02778ad1'/>
<id>ec8f24b7faaf3d4799a7c3f4c1b87f6b02778ad1</id>
<content type='text'>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: wl: Fix uninitialized variable</title>
<updated>2019-05-07T19:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-02T19:59:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There is a potential execution path in which variable *err*
is compared against UBI_IO_BITFLIPS without being properly
initialized previously.

Fix this by initializing variable *err* to 0.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1477298 "(Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 663586c0a892 ("ubi: Expose the bitrot interface")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There is a potential execution path in which variable *err*
is compared against UBI_IO_BITFLIPS without being properly
initialized previously.

Fix this by initializing variable *err* to 0.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1477298 "(Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 663586c0a892 ("ubi: Expose the bitrot interface")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: wl: Silence uninitialized variable warning</title>
<updated>2019-03-05T20:21:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-28T05:35:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5578e48e5c0bf4684e68ae08caa2293bfb3f5307'/>
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<content type='text'>
This condition needs to be fipped around because "err" is uninitialized
when "force" is set.  The Smatch static analysis tool complains and
UBsan will also complain at runtime.

Fixes: 663586c0a892 ("ubi: Expose the bitrot interface")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This condition needs to be fipped around because "err" is uninitialized
when "force" is set.  The Smatch static analysis tool complains and
UBsan will also complain at runtime.

Fixes: 663586c0a892 ("ubi: Expose the bitrot interface")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: Expose the bitrot interface</title>
<updated>2019-02-24T10:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-07T22:16:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=663586c0a8929db81e617c775823efb9d65f2bc2'/>
<id>663586c0a8929db81e617c775823efb9d65f2bc2</id>
<content type='text'>
Using UBI_IOCRPEB and UBI_IOCSPEB userspace can force
reading and scrubbing of PEBs.

In case of bitflips UBI will automatically take action
and move data to a different PEB.
This interface allows a daemon to foster your NAND.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Using UBI_IOCRPEB and UBI_IOCSPEB userspace can force
reading and scrubbing of PEBs.

In case of bitflips UBI will automatically take action
and move data to a different PEB.
This interface allows a daemon to foster your NAND.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubi: Introduce in_pq()</title>
<updated>2019-02-24T10:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-07T22:16:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b32b78f89221ee26ae60f9a59e71b5ec28ba5fe2'/>
<id>b32b78f89221ee26ae60f9a59e71b5ec28ba5fe2</id>
<content type='text'>
This function works like in_wl_tree() but checks whether an ubi_wl_entry
is currently in the protection queue.
We need this function to query the current state of an ubi_wl_entry.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This function works like in_wl_tree() but checks whether an ubi_wl_entry
is currently in the protection queue.
We need this function to query the current state of an ubi_wl_entry.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
