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Bug#813995: marked as done (flashcp writes to nand without being aware of bad blocks)

Your message dated Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:47:11 +0000
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and subject line Bug#813995: fixed in flash-kernel 3.35+deb8u3
has caused the Debian Bug report #813995,
regarding flashcp writes to nand without being aware of bad blocks
to be marked as done.

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Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.35+deb8u2
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Control: block 806926 with -1

Hello,

when flash-kernel writes a kernel/initrd to NAND flash it uses plain
write(2) to /dev/mtdX (flash-kernel < 3.52) or flashcp
(flash-kernel >= 3.52). If the device being written to has bad blocks
these are tried to be erased and written by both approaches.

This results in a non-booting system at best. In general writing to bad
blocks can also affect other (otherwise good) blocks and so result in
loss of unrelated data. I never saw this in practise, but the
manufacturers of NAND flash say so.

I didn't check which machines are affected, but Netgear ReadyNAS 102/104
(which isn't in flash-kernel's database yet, but see below for the
obvious entry to add support for them and #806926) is affected and flash
kernel managed to break a ReadyNAS 102 already (non-permanently by good
fortune as far as I can tell up to now).
I guess there are several other machines affected though.

The right fix is to use nandwrite to write to NAND flash and only use
flashcp for NOR.

Something like

	test -f /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/oobsize

could be used to detect if the device is NAND or NOR. But there might be
more reliable ways I'm not aware of.

I will debug/test a bit more with the broken rn102 (and its owner :-) to
maybe come up with a patch, but if someone beats me that's very welcome,
too.

Best regards
Uwe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-armmp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages flash-kernel depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  devio                  1.2-1
ii  initramfs-tools        0.120
ii  linux-base             3.5
ii  ucf                    3.0030

Versions of packages flash-kernel recommends:
ii  u-boot-tools  2014.10+dfsg1-5

flash-kernel suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/flash-kernel/db changed:
Machine: NETGEAR ReadyNAS 104
DTB-Id: armada-370-netgear-rn104.dtb
DTB-Append: yes
Mtd-Kernel: uImage
Mtd-Initrd: minirootfs
U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x04000000
U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x05000000
Required-Packages: u-boot-tools


-- debconf information:
  flash-kernel/linux_cmdline: quiet

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Source: flash-kernel
Source-Version: 3.35+deb8u3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
flash-kernel, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 813995@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@debian.org> (supplier of updated flash-kernel package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:30:19 +0100
Source: flash-kernel
Binary: flash-kernel flash-kernel-installer
Architecture: source
Version: 3.35+deb8u3
Distribution: stable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@debian.org>
Description:
 flash-kernel - utility to make certain embedded devices bootable
 flash-kernel-installer - Make the system bootable (udeb)
Closes: 794265 813995
Changes:
 flash-kernel (3.35+deb8u3) stable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Karsten Merker ]
   * Disable the use of modprobe and udevadm in the mtdblock() function
     while running the testsuite.
 .
   [ Ian Campbell ]
   * Use /dev/mtdN when flashing, rather than needlessly going through the
     mtdblock layer (which is problematic on some platforms/kernels).
     (Closes: #794265)
 .
   [ Uwe Kleine-König ]
   * use nandwrite when writing to nand flash. (Closes: #813995)
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