On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 20:24 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> > > commit 781932375ffc6411713ee0926ccae8596ed0261c upstream. > > Fastmap cannot track the LEB unmap operation, therefore it can > happen that after an interrupted erasure the mapping still looks > good from Fastmap's point of view, while reading from the PEB will > cause an ECC error and confuses the upper layer. > > Instead of teaching users of UBI how to deal with that, we read back > the VID header and check for errors. If the PEB is empty or shows ECC > errors we fixup the mapping and schedule the PEB for erasure. [...]
Isn't there a risk here, that a read error leads to erasing data that might be recoverable if the read is retried? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom
