[Yaffs] bug in yaffs_WriteNewChunkWithTagsToNAND

Ian McDonnell ian at brightstareng.com
Fri Aug 12 22:14:20 BST 2005


When CONFIG_YAFFS_DISABLE_CHUNK_ERASED_CHECK is defined
and yaffs_WriteNewChunkWithTagsToNAND gets a failure on
the call to yaffs_WriteChunkWithTagsToNAND()
it will loop over the all (free) chunks failing to write
and printing "yaffs chunk %d was not erased".

Well, it actually skips the second write and thinks it failed.

The range of the #ifdef CONFIG_YAFFS_DISABLE_CHUNK_ERASED_CHECK
needs to extend to just below the next "else".

See below. I also think it would be a good idea to limit "attempts"
to some sane number, perhaps chunks-per-block * 10.

-imcd

=======================

       do{
                chunk = yaffs_AllocateChunk(dev,useReserve);
        
                if(chunk >= 0)
                {

                        // First check this chunk is erased...
#ifndef CONFIG_YAFFS_DISABLE_CHUNK_ERASED_CHECK
                        writeOk = yaffs_CheckChunkErased(dev,chunk);
// not here #endif          
                        if(!writeOk)
                        {
                                T(YAFFS_TRACE_ERROR,(TSTR("**>> yaffs chunk %d was not erased" TENDSTR),chunk));
                        }
                        else
#endif //here
                        {
                                writeOk =  yaffs_WriteChunkWithTagsToNAND(dev,chunk,data,tags);
                        }
                        attempts++;

                        if(writeOk)
                        {
                                // Copy the data into the robustification buffer.
                                // NB We do this at the end to prevent duplicates in the case of a write error.
                                //Todo
                                yaffs_HandleWriteChunkOk(dev,chunk,data,tags);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                yaffs_HandleWriteChunkError(dev,chunk);
                        }
                }
                
        } while(chunk >= 0 && ! writeOk);



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