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Sebastian Siewior 9cd9a21ce0 ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update 
In commit 6afaf8a484 ("UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker") I
managed to trigger and fix a similar bug. Now here is another version of
which I assumed it wouldn't matter back then but it turns out UBI has a
check for it and will error out like this:

|ubi0 warning: validate_vid_hdr: inconsistent used_ebs
|ubi0 error: validate_vid_hdr: inconsistent VID header at PEB 592

All you need to trigger this is? "ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_0 file" + a
powercut in the middle of the operation.
ubi_start_update() sets the update-marker and puts all EBs on the erase
list. After that userland can proceed to write new data while the old EB
aren't erased completely. A powercut at this point is usually not that
much of a tragedy. UBI won't give read access to the static volume
because it has the update marker. It will most likely set the corrupted
flag because it misses some EBs.
So we are all good. Unless the size of the image that has been written
differs from the old image in the magnitude of at least one EB. In that
case UBI will find two different values for `used_ebs' and refuse to
attach the image with the error message mentioned above.

So in order not to get in the situation, the patch will ensure that we
wait until everything is removed before it tries to write any data.
The alternative would be to detect such a case and remove all EBs at the
attached time after we processed the volume-table and see the
update-marker set. The patch looks bigger and I doubt it is worth it
since usually the write() will wait from time to time for a new EB since
usually there not that many spare EB that can be used.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2017-03-30 09:27:11 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'regset' (PTRACE_SETREGSET data leakage) 2017-03-29 08:55:25 -07:00
block blk-mq: include errors in did_work calculation 2017-03-24 15:42:47 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation All x86-specific, apart from some arch-independent syzkaller fixes. 2017-03-28 11:33:34 -07:00
drivers ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update 2017-03-30 09:27:11 +02:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs driver core fix for 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 11:05:42 -07:00
include All x86-specific, apart from some arch-independent syzkaller fixes. 2017-03-28 11:33:34 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-03-25 15:13:55 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net Merge branch 'apw' (xfrm_user fixes) 2017-03-29 13:26:22 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Adding a group of pin definition to fix headset problem 2017-03-23 09:39:55 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 11:29:49 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: pci-assign: do not map smm memory slot pages in vt-d page tables 2017-03-28 10:08:54 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove old e-mail address 2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS A new EDAC driver for the Pondicherry2 memory controller IP found in the 2017-03-27 11:09:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 14:15:16 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.