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Christopher Haster
11b036cc6c Prevented unnecessary superblock rewrites if old version in superblock chain
Because multiple, out-of-date superblocks can exist in our superblock
chain, we need to be careful to make sure newer superblock entries
override older superblock entries.

If we see an older on-disk minor version in the superblock chain, we
were correctly overriding the on-disk minor version, but we were also
leaving the "needs superblock" bit set in our consistency state.

This isn't a hard-error, but would lead to a superblock rewrite every
mount. The rewrite would make no progress, as the out-of-date version is
effectively immutable at this point, and just waste prog cycles.

This should fix that by clearing the "needs superblock" bit if we see a
newer on-disk minor version.
2024-03-19 00:49:28 -05:00
Christopher Haster
25ee90fdf1 Clarified what is accessible at specific superblock offsets in SPEC.md
It used to be the case that the entire superblock entry could be found
at specific offsets, but this was only possible while the superblock
entry was immutable. Now that the superblock entry is very mutable
(block-count changes, lfs2.0 -> lfs2.1 version bumps, etc), the correct
superblock entry may end up later in the metadata log.

At the very least, the "littlefs" magic string is still immutable and at
the specific offset offset=8. This is arguably the most useful
fixed-offset item.
2024-03-19 00:49:28 -05:00
Christopher Haster
a60a986c9c Duplicate the superblock entry during superblock expansion
The documentation does not match the implementation here. The intended
behavior of superblock expansion was to duplicate the current superblock
entry into the new superblock:

   .--------.  .--------.
  .|littlefs|->|littlefs|
  ||bs=4096 | ||bs=4096 |
  ||bc=256  | ||bc=256  |
  ||crc32   | ||root dir|
  ||        | ||crc32   |
  |'--------' |'--------'
  '--------'  '--------'

The main benefit is that we can rely on the magic string "littlefs"
always residing in blocks 0x{0,1}, even if the superblock chain has
multiple superblocks.

The downside is that earlier superblocks in the superblock chain may
contain out-of-date configuration. This is a bit annoying, and risks
hard-to-reach bugs, but in theory shouldn't break anything as long as
the filesystem is aware of this.

Unfortunately this was lost at some point during refactoring in the
early v2-alpha work. A lot of code was moving around in this stage, so
it's a bit hard to track down the change and if it was intentional. The
result is superblock expansion creates a valid linked-list of
superblocks, but only the last superblock contains a valid superblock
entry:

   .--------.  .--------.
  .|crc32   |->|littlefs|
  ||        | ||bs=4096 |
  ||        | ||bc=256  |
  ||        | ||root dir|
  ||        | ||crc32   |
  |'--------' |'--------'
  '--------'  '--------'

What's interesting is this isn't invalid as far as lfs_mount is
concerned. lfs_mount is happy as long as a superblock entry exists
anywhere in the superblock chain. This is good for compat flexibility,
but is the main reason this has gone unnoticed for so long.

---

With the benefit of more time to think about the problem, it may have
been more preferable to copy only the "littlefs" magic string and NOT
the superblock entry:

   .--------.  .--------.
  .|littlefs|->|littlefs|
  ||crc32c  | ||bs=4096 |
  ||        | ||bc=256  |
  ||        | ||root dir|
  ||        | ||crc32   |
  |'--------' |'--------'
  '--------'  '--------'

This would allow for simple "littlefs" magic string checks without the
risks associated with out-of-date superblock entries.

Unfortunately the current implementation errors if it finds a "littlefs"
magic string without an associated superblock entry, so such a change
would not be compatible with old drivers.

---

This commit tweaks superblock expansion to duplicate the superblock
entry instead of simply moving it to the new superblock. And adds tests
over the magic string "littlefs" both before and after superblock
expansion.

Found by rojer and Nikola Kosturski
2024-03-19 00:48:56 -05:00
3 changed files with 66 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -441,9 +441,10 @@ Superblock fields:
7. **Attr max (32-bits)** - Maximum size of file attributes in bytes.
The superblock must always be the first entry (id 0) in a metadata pair as well
as be the first entry written to the block. This means that the superblock
entry can be read from a device using offsets alone.
The superblock must always be the first entry (id 0) in the metadata pair, and
the name tag must always be the first tag in the metadata pair. This makes it
so that the magic string "littlefs" will always reside at offset=8 in a valid
littlefs superblock.
---
#### `0x2xx` LFS_TYPE_STRUCT

15
lfs.c
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@@ -2191,7 +2191,8 @@ static int lfs_dir_splittingcompact(lfs_t *lfs, lfs_mdir_t *dir,
// we can do, we'll error later if we've become frozen
LFS_WARN("Unable to expand superblock");
} else {
end = begin;
// duplicate the superblock entry into the new superblock
end = 1;
}
}
}
@@ -2358,7 +2359,9 @@ fixmlist:;
while (d->id >= d->m.count && d->m.split) {
// we split and id is on tail now
d->id -= d->m.count;
if (lfs_pair_cmp(d->m.tail, lfs->root) != 0) {
d->id -= d->m.count;
}
int err = lfs_dir_fetch(lfs, &d->m, d->m.tail);
if (err) {
return err;
@@ -4466,6 +4469,7 @@ static int lfs_mount_(lfs_t *lfs, const struct lfs_config *cfg) {
// found older minor version? set an in-device only bit in the
// gstate so we know we need to rewrite the superblock before
// the first write
bool needssuperblock = false;
if (minor_version < lfs_fs_disk_version_minor(lfs)) {
LFS_DEBUG("Found older minor version "
"v%"PRIu16".%"PRIu16" < v%"PRIu16".%"PRIu16,
@@ -4473,10 +4477,11 @@ static int lfs_mount_(lfs_t *lfs, const struct lfs_config *cfg) {
minor_version,
lfs_fs_disk_version_major(lfs),
lfs_fs_disk_version_minor(lfs));
// note this bit is reserved on disk, so fetching more gstate
// will not interfere here
lfs_fs_prepsuperblock(lfs, true);
needssuperblock = true;
}
// note this bit is reserved on disk, so fetching more gstate
// will not interfere here
lfs_fs_prepsuperblock(lfs, needssuperblock);
// check superblock configuration
if (superblock.name_max) {

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@@ -14,6 +14,24 @@ code = '''
lfs_unmount(&lfs) => 0;
'''
# make sure the magic string "littlefs" is always at offset=8
[cases.test_superblocks_magic]
code = '''
lfs_t lfs;
lfs_format(&lfs, cfg) => 0;
// check our magic string
//
// note if we lose power we may not have the magic string in both blocks!
// but we don't lose power in this test so we can assert the magic string
// is present in both
uint8_t magic[lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)];
cfg->read(cfg, 0, 0, magic, lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)) => 0;
assert(memcmp(&magic[8], "littlefs", 8) == 0);
cfg->read(cfg, 1, 0, magic, lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)) => 0;
assert(memcmp(&magic[8], "littlefs", 8) == 0);
'''
# mount/unmount from interpretting a previous superblock block_count
[cases.test_superblocks_mount_unknown_block_count]
code = '''
@@ -28,7 +46,6 @@ code = '''
lfs_unmount(&lfs) => 0;
'''
# reentrant format
[cases.test_superblocks_reentrant_format]
reentrant = true
@@ -135,6 +152,39 @@ code = '''
lfs_unmount(&lfs) => 0;
'''
# make sure the magic string "littlefs" is always at offset=8
[cases.test_superblocks_magic_expand]
defines.BLOCK_CYCLES = [32, 33, 1]
defines.N = [10, 100, 1000]
code = '''
lfs_t lfs;
lfs_format(&lfs, cfg) => 0;
lfs_mount(&lfs, cfg) => 0;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
lfs_file_t file;
lfs_file_open(&lfs, &file, "dummy",
LFS_O_WRONLY | LFS_O_CREAT | LFS_O_EXCL) => 0;
lfs_file_close(&lfs, &file) => 0;
struct lfs_info info;
lfs_stat(&lfs, "dummy", &info) => 0;
assert(strcmp(info.name, "dummy") == 0);
assert(info.type == LFS_TYPE_REG);
lfs_remove(&lfs, "dummy") => 0;
}
lfs_unmount(&lfs) => 0;
// check our magic string
//
// note if we lose power we may not have the magic string in both blocks!
// but we don't lose power in this test so we can assert the magic string
// is present in both
uint8_t magic[lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)];
cfg->read(cfg, 0, 0, magic, lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)) => 0;
assert(memcmp(&magic[8], "littlefs", 8) == 0);
cfg->read(cfg, 1, 0, magic, lfs_max(16, READ_SIZE)) => 0;
assert(memcmp(&magic[8], "littlefs", 8) == 0);
'''
# expanding superblock with power cycle
[cases.test_superblocks_expand_power_cycle]
defines.BLOCK_CYCLES = [32, 33, 1]
@@ -221,6 +271,7 @@ code = '''
lfs_unmount(&lfs) => 0;
'''
# mount with unknown block_count
[cases.test_superblocks_unknown_blocks]
code = '''