2006-08-21 09:08:42

by Richard Purdie

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Subject: [PATCH] [MTD] Protect chip->ops with correct locking - fix jffs2 corruption

Read the return value before we release the nand device otherwise the
value can become corrupted by another user of chip->ops, ultimately
resulting in filesystem corruption.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <[email protected]>

---

This fixes the jffs2 errors and filesystem corruption I reported. It
should be applied for 2.6.18.

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 18:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:34:46PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > We have multiple confirmations that this patch fixes the issue
> > reported. I agree it should go in 2.6.18.
> >
> > Greg, can you add this to your tree?
>
> Add what to what tree? I need things to be a bit more specific
> here :)

drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: git/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
===================================================================
--- git.orig/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c 2006-08-17 22:46:19.000000000 +0100
+++ git/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c 2006-08-17 22:47:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -1093,9 +1093,10 @@ static int nand_read(struct mtd_info *mt

ret = nand_do_read_ops(mtd, from, &chip->ops);

+ *retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
+
nand_release_device(mtd);

- *retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
return ret;
}

@@ -1691,9 +1692,10 @@ static int nand_write(struct mtd_info *m

ret = nand_do_write_ops(mtd, to, &chip->ops);

+ *retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
+
nand_release_device(mtd);

- *retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
return ret;
}