From: Thomas Betker <thomas.bet...@rohde-schwarz.com> jffs2_flash_direct_writev() always invokes jffs2_sum_add_kvec(), even if mtd_writev() fails. Usually, this results in an extra summary entry pointing to dirty node space, which should be ignored -- it is a bit of a waste, but harmless.
When mtd_writev() returns *retlen == 0, though, the node space is not reserved as dirty, but re-used; the extra summary entry then points into the space of the next node. After the erase block has been closed, we get the following messages on remount: jffs2: error: (79) jffs2_link_node_ref: Adding new ref c3048d18 at (0x00ec5b88-0x00ec6bcc) not immediately after previous (0x00ec5b88-0x00ec5b88) ... jffs2: Checked all inodes but still 0x2088 bytes of unchecked space? jffs2: No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread The extra summary entries amount to "unchecked space", so that jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() returns -ENOSPC. And without garbage collection, the filesystem becomes unuseable over time as the erase blocks fill up. Fix this by skipping jffs2_sum_add_kvec() when the MTD write fails. We don't need the summary entry anyway, and the behaviour matches that of jffs2_flash_writev() in wbuf.c (with write buffering enabled). Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker <thomas.bet...@rohde-schwarz.com> --- fs/jffs2/writev.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jffs2/writev.c b/fs/jffs2/writev.c index a1bda9d..eec4197 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/writev.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/writev.c @@ -16,9 +16,18 @@ int jffs2_flash_direct_writev(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, const struct kvec *vecs, unsigned long count, loff_t to, size_t *retlen) { + int ret; + + ret = mtd_writev(c->mtd, vecs, count, to, retlen); + if (!jffs2_is_writebuffered(c)) { if (jffs2_sum_active()) { int res; + + if (ret || + *retlen != iov_length((struct iovec *) vecs, count)) + return ret; + res = jffs2_sum_add_kvec(c, vecs, count, (uint32_t) to); if (res) { return res; @@ -26,19 +35,23 @@ int jffs2_flash_direct_writev(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, const struct kvec *vecs, } } - return mtd_writev(c->mtd, vecs, count, to, retlen); + return ret; } int jffs2_flash_direct_write(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, loff_t ofs, size_t len, size_t *retlen, const u_char *buf) { int ret; + ret = mtd_write(c->mtd, ofs, len, retlen, buf); if (jffs2_sum_active()) { struct kvec vecs[1]; int res; + if (ret || *retlen != len) + return ret; + vecs[0].iov_base = (unsigned char *) buf; vecs[0].iov_len = len; @@ -47,5 +60,6 @@ int jffs2_flash_direct_write(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, loff_t ofs, size_t len, return res; } } + return ret; } -- 2.6.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/