Re: [PATCH] mtd gpmi-nand: Fix read page when reading to vmalloced area

[Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@grid-net.com>]

Tested this modification on MX28 hardware that I have access to. With 
this patch I can now create UBI file system on flash.

Tested-by: snijsure@grid-net.com

Thanks!
-Subodh

On 06/26/2012 08:26 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The gpmi-nand driver uses virt_addr_valid() to check whether a buffer
> is suitable for dma. If it's not, a driver allocated buffer is used
> instead. Then after a page read the driver allocated buffer must be
> copied to the user supplied buffer. This does not happen since:
>
> commit 7725cc85932bd02dd12c23108e0ef748c551ccba
> Author: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed May 2 10:15:02 2012 -0700
>
>      mtd: gpmi-nand: utilize oob_requested parameter
>
>      Don't read OOB if the caller didn't request it.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
>      Acked-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
>      Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
>
> This patch fixes this. The bug is encountered with UBI which uses a vmalloced
> buffer for the volume table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Cc: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@grid-net.com>
> ---
>   drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c |   10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> index 6bb6f48..0179685 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> @@ -920,12 +920,12 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_page(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
>   		 */
>   		memset(chip->oob_poi, ~0, mtd->oobsize);
>   		chip->oob_poi[0] = ((uint8_t *) auxiliary_virt)[0];
> -
> -		read_page_swap_end(this, buf, mtd->writesize,
> -				this->payload_virt, this->payload_phys,
> -				nfc_geo->payload_size,
> -				payload_virt, payload_phys);
>   	}
> +
> +	read_page_swap_end(this, buf, mtd->writesize,
> +			this->payload_virt, this->payload_phys,
> +			nfc_geo->payload_size,
> +			payload_virt, payload_phys);
>   exit_nfc:
>   	return ret;
>   }