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-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/gc.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/io.c12
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/journal.c25
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/gc.c b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
index d70937b3f8e9..ded29f6224c2 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ static int switch_gc_head(struct ubifs_info *c)
if (err)
return err;
+ err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
err = ubifs_add_bud_to_log(c, GCHD, gc_lnum, 0);
if (err)
return err;
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/io.c b/fs/ubifs/io.c
index 67bbde3550cf..166951e0dcd3 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/io.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/io.c
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ int ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf)
* @dtype: data type
*
* This function targets the write-buffer to logical eraseblock @lnum:@offs.
- * The write-buffer is synchronized if it is not empty. Returns zero in case of
- * success and a negative error code in case of failure.
+ * The write-buffer has to be empty. Returns zero in case of success and a
+ * negative error code in case of failure.
*/
int ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf, int lnum, int offs,
int dtype)
@@ -465,13 +465,7 @@ int ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf, int lnum, int offs,
ubifs_assert(offs >= 0 && offs <= c->leb_size);
ubifs_assert(offs % c->min_io_size == 0 && !(offs & 7));
ubifs_assert(lnum != wbuf->lnum);
-
- if (wbuf->used > 0) {
- int err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
-
- if (err)
- return err;
- }
+ ubifs_assert(wbuf->used == 0);
spin_lock(&wbuf->lock);
wbuf->lnum = lnum;
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index ce55a4807cdc..34b1679e6e3a 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -141,14 +141,8 @@ again:
* LEB with some empty space.
*/
lnum = ubifs_find_free_space(c, len, &offs, squeeze);
- if (lnum >= 0) {
- /* Found an LEB, add it to the journal head */
- err = ubifs_add_bud_to_log(c, jhead, lnum, offs);
- if (err)
- goto out_return;
- /* A new bud was successfully allocated and added to the log */
+ if (lnum >= 0)
goto out;
- }
err = lnum;
if (err != -ENOSPC)
@@ -203,12 +197,23 @@ again:
return 0;
}
- err = ubifs_add_bud_to_log(c, jhead, lnum, 0);
- if (err)
- goto out_return;
offs = 0;
out:
+ /*
+ * Make sure we synchronize the write-buffer before we add the new bud
+ * to the log. Otherwise we may have a power cut after the log
+ * reference node for the last bud (@lnum) is written but before the
+ * write-buffer data are written to the next-to-last bud
+ * (@wbuf->lnum). And the effect would be that the recovery would see
+ * that there is corruption in the next-to-last bud.
+ */
+ err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_return;
+ err = ubifs_add_bud_to_log(c, jhead, lnum, offs);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_return;
err = ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock(wbuf, lnum, offs, wbuf->dtype);
if (err)
goto out_unlock;