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authorAhmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>2020-03-05 08:40:32 +0100
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2020-03-09 08:36:15 +0100
commitf41e5160c8618455064a4ff4227105010cd56aaa (patch)
tree0c1c2e4f9626b488a9ce970e6acd9304c4c314ca /common/state/state.c
parentdc5100e6ba686fafd5570ce6d972383f047c7313 (diff)
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state: treat state with all-invalid buckets as dirty
The state.dirty flag controls whether state_save will actually persist state. It is cleared when we successfully load or save state and set on writing a state parameter. When the state however becomes corrupt during barebox runtime and state.dirty == 0, reinitializing the state to defaults is quite cumbersome: 1. We reset twice. After the first reset, the dirty flag is reset and before the second, state_save will reinitialize to defaults 2. We write any state variable and then run the state -s command Both workarounds are quite obscure, improve the user experience by having state -l set the dirty flag when it fails, so a subsequent state -s may persist the default values to state. Steps to reproduce: barebox$ state -l state: Using bucket 0@0x00000000 barebox$ memcpy -s /dev/zero -d /dev/eeprom0.state 0 0 0x400 barebox$ state -s barebox$ state -l ERROR: state: No meta data header found ERROR: state: No meta data header found ERROR: state: No meta data header found ERROR: state: Failed to find any valid state copy in any bucket ERROR: state: Failed to read state with format raw, -2 state: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'common/state/state.c')
-rw-r--r--common/state/state.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/common/state/state.c b/common/state/state.c
index b168387eef..1822f37f3e 100644
--- a/common/state/state.c
+++ b/common/state/state.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ out:
*/
static int state_do_load(struct state *state, enum state_flags flags)
{
- void *buf;
+ void *buf = NULL;
ssize_t len;
int ret;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int state_do_load(struct state *state, enum state_flags flags)
if (ret) {
dev_err(&state->dev, "Failed to read state with format %s, %d\n",
state->format->name, ret);
- return ret;
+ goto out;
}
ret = state->format->unpack(state->format, state, buf, len);
@@ -114,9 +114,8 @@ static int state_do_load(struct state *state, enum state_flags flags)
}
state->init_from_defaults = 0;
- state->dirty = 0;
-
out:
+ state->dirty = !!ret; /* mark dirty on error */
free(buf);
return ret;
}