From: "Brian Norris" <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: "Artem Bityutskiy" <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>,
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
b35362@freescale.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Adam Thomson <adam.thomson@alcatel-lucent.com>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/12] mtd: nand: initialize chip->oob_poi before write
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:45:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314755147-17756-2-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314755147-17756-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
For raw (i.e., w/o ECC) page writes (i.e., w/o OOB), we may not have
initialized and filled the chip->oob_poi buffer. This can end up writing
junk to the flash if we're not careful. Say, for example, we use
`nandwrite -n' (without OOB). Then nand_do_write_ops calls
chip->write_page, which writes OOB data with some previous, junk data.
This fixes a bug with this commit (from l2-mtd-2.6.git):
commit a8ee364bbf14861d5d0af39c4da06c30441895fb
mtd: nand_base: always initialise oob_poi before writing OOB data
That commit removed the memset from under a conditional for:
if (likely(!oob))
and moved it (indirectly) to the `nand_fill_oob()' function, which was
under:
if (unlikely(oob))
Though the "likely" and "unlikely" can be confusing, these are not the
same conditions :)
And if the buggy commit is going stable, this should go stable (or just
amend it) as well.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Thomson <adam.thomson@alcatel-lucent.com>
---
If the buggy commit is going into -stable, this should go -stable as
well (or just amend the original).
drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index d2ee68a..273e6a5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -2227,6 +2227,9 @@ static int nand_do_write_ops(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to,
size_t len = min(oobwritelen, oobmaxlen);
oob = nand_fill_oob(mtd, oob, len, ops);
oobwritelen -= len;
+ } else {
+ /* We still need to erase leftover OOB data */
+ memset(chip->oob_poi, 0xff, mtd->oobsize);
}
ret = chip->write_page(mtd, chip, wbuf, page, cached,
--
1.7.5.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-31 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-31 1:45 [PATCH 00/12] mtd: various "no ECC" and MLC NAND work Brian Norris
2011-08-31 1:45 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2011-09-11 11:31 ` [PATCH 01/12] mtd: nand: initialize chip->oob_poi before write Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-12 9:20 ` THOMSON, Adam (Adam)
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 02/12] mtd: support writing OOB without ECC Brian Norris
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 03/12] mtd: support reading " Brian Norris
2011-09-11 11:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-11 12:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 04/12] mtd: move mtd_oob_mode_t to shared kernel/user space Brian Norris
2011-09-11 11:57 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-11 12:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-13 22:29 ` Brian Norris
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 05/12] mtd: rename MTD_OOB_* to MTD_OPS_* Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-11 12:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 06/12] mtd: rename MTD_MODE_* to MTD_FILE_MODE_* Brian Norris
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 07/12] mtd: add MEMWRITE ioctl Brian Norris
2011-09-09 16:59 ` [PATCH v2 " Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 08/12] mtd: nand: document nand_chip.oob_poi Brian Norris
2011-09-11 11:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 09/12] mtd: document ABI Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 10/12] mtd: nand: kill member `ops' of `struct nand_chip' Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:35 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 11/12] mtd: kill old field for `struct mtd_info_user' Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:35 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-31 1:45 ` [PATCH 12/12] mtd: nand: free allocated memory Brian Norris
2011-09-11 12:07 ` Artem Bityutskiy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1314755147-17756-2-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com \
--to=computersforpeace@gmail.com \
--cc=adam.thomson@alcatel-lucent.com \
--cc=b35362@freescale.com \
--cc=cernekee@gmail.com \
--cc=dedekind1@gmail.com \
--cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=ricard.wanderlof@axis.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.