UBIFS errors since Linux 5.15

[Richard Weinberger]

Eddie,

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> Gesendet: Freitag, 7. November 2025 18:38:54
> Betreff: UBIFS errors since Linux 5.15

> Hello,
> 
> We are updating some BMC (Aspeed AST2600, ARM32) systems that were on
> Linux 5.4 but observe consistent UBIFS errors with Linux 5.15 and later.
> The errors seem to vary; there is a sampling below.
> 
> 
> We performed a git bisect and came up with the following commit, which
> of course is completely unrelated to UBIFS. Reverting it does prevent
> the issue... Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> commit 33fc9e26b7cb39f0d4219c875a2451802249c225
> Author: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins at google.com>
> Date:   Thu Oct 27 11:36:52 2022 -0400

That's indeed strange.
Are you absolutely sure that this commit triggers the issue?
E.g. if you revert it on top of 5.15 the issue vanishes and when you
re-apply it, the issue is back?

Thanks,
//richard