UBI: add write checking

Add an extra debugging check function which validates writes.
After every write it reads the data back, compares it with the
original data, and complains if they mismatch.

Useful for debugging. No-op if extra debugging checks are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index a2501299a67c..b4ecc84c7549 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -273,6 +273,21 @@ int ubi_io_write(struct ubi_device *ubi, const void *buf, int pnum, int offset,
         } else
                 ubi_assert(written == len);
 
+        if (!err) {
+                err = ubi_dbg_check_write(ubi, buf, pnum, offset, len);
+                if (err)
+                        return err;
+
+                /*
+                 * Since we always write sequentially, the rest of the PEB has
+                 * to contain only 0xFF bytes.
+                 */
+                offset += len;
+                len = ubi->peb_size - offset;
+                if (len)
+                        err = ubi_dbg_check_all_ff(ubi, pnum, offset, len);
+        }
+
         return err;
 }
 
@@ -1282,6 +1297,61 @@ exit:
 }
 
 /**
+ * ubi_dbg_check_write - make sure write succeeded.
+ * @ubi: UBI device description object
+ * @buf: buffer with data which were written
+ * @pnum: physical eraseblock number the data were written to
+ * @offset: offset within the physical eraseblock the data were written to
+ * @len: how many bytes were written
+ *
+ * This functions reads data which were recently written and compares it with
+ * the original data buffer - the data have to match. Returns zero if the data
+ * match and a negative error code if not or in case of failure.
+ */
+int ubi_dbg_check_write(struct ubi_device *ubi, const void *buf, int pnum,
+                        int offset, int len)
+{
+        int err, i;
+
+        mutex_lock(&ubi->dbg_buf_mutex);
+        err = ubi_io_read(ubi, ubi->dbg_peb_buf, pnum, offset, len);
+        if (err)
+                goto out_unlock;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+                uint8_t c = ((uint8_t *)buf)[i];
+                uint8_t c1 = ((uint8_t *)ubi->dbg_peb_buf)[i];
+                int dump_len;
+
+                if (c == c1)
+                        continue;
+
+                ubi_err("paranoid check failed for PEB %d:%d, len %d",
+                        pnum, offset, len);
+                ubi_msg("data differ at position %d", i);
+                dump_len = max_t(int, 128, len - i);
+                ubi_msg("hex dump of the original buffer from %d to %d",
+                        i, i + dump_len);
+                print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 32, 1,
+                               buf + i, dump_len, 1);
+                ubi_msg("hex dump of the read buffer from %d to %d",
+                        i, i + dump_len);
+                print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 32, 1,
+                               ubi->dbg_peb_buf + i, dump_len, 1);
+                ubi_dbg_dump_stack();
+                err = -EINVAL;
+                goto out_unlock;
+        }
+        mutex_unlock(&ubi->dbg_buf_mutex);
+
+        return 0;
+
+out_unlock:
+        mutex_unlock(&ubi->dbg_buf_mutex);
+        return err;
+}
+
+/**
  * ubi_dbg_check_all_ff - check that a region of flash is empty.
  * @ubi: UBI device description object
  * @pnum: the physical eraseblock number to check