phosphor-ipmi-flash state recovery

[Brandon Kim]

Created https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-ipmi-flash/issues/7 to track
this issue.

Thanks,
Brandon

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:26 PM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 3:14 PM Patrick Voelker
> <Patrick_Voelker at phoenix.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Internally, it looks like I need to get to abortProcess() but to do
> that I need
> > > to close the current session but I don’t have a way to obtain the
> sessionID
> > > after the fact.  Also the stale session doesn’t seem to expire (as
> mentioned
> > > in the readme.md) and I can’t find the support for that in the code.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-ipmi-
> > > flash/blob/master/bmc/firmware_handler.cpp#L95
> > >
> > > You should be able to just delete any of the blob Id paths, such as
> > > the active blob path, and that should trigger what you want.
> >
> > As coded, that only works to abort when in in the verificationPending
> and updatePending states.  That won't work if it's stuck in the middle of
> an aborted transfer with a session that's still open.
>
> Right - because handlers don't control sessions, those are owned by
> the blob manager that's routing the commands. - then we'll need a
> patch to handle expiration, per the email chain - Sorry, I
> misunderstood the circumstance.
>
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