STM32F4: SD-Card using FatFs and USB fails - usb

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In my application, I've set up a STM32F4, SD-Card and USB-CDC (all with CubeMX).
Using a PC, I send commands to the STM32, which then does things on the SD-Card.
The commands are handled using a "communicationBuffer" (implemented by me) which waits for commands over USB, UART, ... and sets a flag, when a \n character was received. The main loop polls for this flag and if it is set, a parser handles the command. So far, so good.
When I send commands via UART, it works fine, and I can get a list of the files on the SD-Card or perform other access via FatFs without a problem.
The problem occurs, when I receive a command via USB-CDC. The parser works as expected, but FatFs claims FR_NO_FILESYSTEM (13) in f_opendir.
Also other FatFs commands fail with this error-code.
After one failed USB-command, commands via UART will also fail. It seems, as if the USB somehow crashes the initialized SD-Card-driver.
Any idea how I can resolve this behaviour? Or a starting point for debugging?
My USB-Implementation:
I'm using CubeMX, and therefore use the prescribed way to initialize the USB-CDC interface:
main() calls MX_USB_DEVICE_Init(void).
In usbd_conf.c I've got:
void HAL_PCD_MspInit(PCD_HandleTypeDef* pcdHandle)
{
GPIO_InitTypeDef GPIO_InitStruct;
if(pcdHandle->Instance==USB_OTG_FS)
{
/* USER CODE BEGIN USB_OTG_FS_MspInit 0 */
/* USER CODE END USB_OTG_FS_MspInit 0 */
/**USB_OTG_FS GPIO Configuration
PA11 ------> USB_OTG_FS_DM
PA12 ------> USB_OTG_FS_DP
*/
GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = OTG_FS_DM_Pin|OTG_FS_DP_Pin;
GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_LOW;
GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF10_OTG_FS;
HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOA, &GPIO_InitStruct);
/* Peripheral clock enable */
__HAL_RCC_USB_OTG_FS_CLK_ENABLE();
/* Peripheral interrupt init */
HAL_NVIC_SetPriority(OTG_FS_IRQn, 7, 1);
HAL_NVIC_EnableIRQ(OTG_FS_IRQn);
/* USER CODE BEGIN USB_OTG_FS_MspInit 1 */
/* USER CODE END USB_OTG_FS_MspInit 1 */
}
}
and the receive-process is implemented in usbd_cdc_if.c as follows:
static int8_t CDC_Receive_FS (uint8_t* Buf, uint32_t *Len)
{
/* USER CODE BEGIN 6 */
mRootObject->mUsbBuffer->fillBuffer(Buf, *Len);
USBD_CDC_ReceivePacket(&hUsbDeviceFS);
return (USBD_OK);
/* USER CODE END 6 */
}
fillBuffer is implemented as follows (I use the same implementation for UART and USB transfer - with separate instances for the respective interfaces. mBuf is an instance-variable of type std::vector<char>):
void commBuf::fillBuffer(uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
{
// Check if last fill has timed out
if(SystemTime::getMS() - lastActionTime > timeout) {
mBuf.clear();
}
lastActionTime = SystemTime::getMS();
// Fill new content
mBuf.insert(mBuf.end(), buf, buf + len);
uint32_t done = 0;
while(!done) {
for(auto i = mBuf.end() - len, ee = mBuf.end(); i != ee; ++i) {
if(*i == '\n') {
newCommand = true;
myCommand = std::string((char*) &mBuf[0],i - mBuf.begin() + 1);
mBuf.erase(mBuf.begin(), mBuf.begin() + (i - mBuf.begin() + 1));
break;
}
}
done = 1;
}
}

Answer 1

I resolved the problem:
In usb_cdc_if.c the #define APP_RX_DATA_SIZE was set to 4 (for some unknown reason). As this is lower than the packet size, incoming packets of a larger size than 4 bytes were overwriting my memory.
It happened, that the following portion of my memory was the FATFS* FatFs[] pointer-list to the initialized FATFS-Filesystem structs.
So subsequently the address to this struct was overwritten, when a command of 5 or more bytes arrived.
Phew, that was a tough one.