On 04/27/2018 03:51 PM, Patrice Chotard wrote:
> This patch solves assert failed displayed in the console during a boot.
> The root cause is that the ubifs_inode is not already allocated when
> ubifs_printdir and ubifs_finddir functions are called.
> 
> Trace showing the issue:
> feed 'boot.scr.uimg', ino 94, new f_pos 0x17b40ece
> dent->ch.sqnum '7132', creat_sqnum 3886945402880
> UBIFS assert failed in ubifs_finddir at 436
> INODE ALLOCATION: creat_sqnum '7129'
> Found U-Boot script /boot.scr.uimg
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Kerello <christophe.kere...@st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chot...@st.com>

I ran into this too, but what I do not quite understand from the commit
message is how hiding the error actually solves the problem that the
assert points to.

Why does the assert trigger in the first place ?

What is the root cause of the issue that is being hidden by this patch?

> ---
> 
>  fs/ubifs/ubifs.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> index 4465523d5fbe..a71c9400ef33 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> @@ -350,7 +350,9 @@ static int ubifs_printdir(struct file *file, void *dirent)
>               dbg_gen("feed '%s', ino %llu, new f_pos %#x",
>                       dent->name, (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(dent->inum),
>                       key_hash_flash(c, &dent->key));
> +#ifndef __UBOOT__
>               ubifs_assert(le64_to_cpu(dent->ch.sqnum) > 
> ubifs_inode(dir)->creat_sqnum);
> +#endif
>  
>               nm.len = le16_to_cpu(dent->nlen);
>               over = filldir(c, (char *)dent->name, nm.len,
> @@ -432,7 +434,9 @@ static int ubifs_finddir(struct super_block *sb, char 
> *dirname,
>               dbg_gen("feed '%s', ino %llu, new f_pos %#x",
>                       dent->name, (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(dent->inum),
>                       key_hash_flash(c, &dent->key));
> +#ifndef __UBOOT__
>               ubifs_assert(le64_to_cpu(dent->ch.sqnum) > 
> ubifs_inode(dir)->creat_sqnum);
> +#endif
>  
>               nm.len = le16_to_cpu(dent->nlen);
>               if ((strncmp(dirname, (char *)dent->name, nm.len) == 0) &&
> 


-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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