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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
To: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Cc: boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, richard@nod.at,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: warn if hamming layout is used with too large ECC
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:50:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180209095027.63da257d@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180208233305.20583-1-stefan@agner.ch>

On Fri,  9 Feb 2018 00:33:05 +0100
Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> wrote:

> Warn in case a driver uses too large ECC with hamming layout.
> This is especially helpful since hamming layout is the default
> layout when using hardware ECC and no specific OOB layout is
> specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index 96c97588e1ba..2f3f43d0e288 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ static int nand_ooblayout_free_lp_hamming(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	WARN_ON(mtd->oobsize - ecc_offset < ecc->total);
> +

Did you hit this problem? Anyway, if there's a case where the number of
ECC bytes does not fit in the space reserved for ECC, there's a bug
before this point, and this should be checked at init/probe time.

>  	if (section == 0) {
>  		oobregion->offset = 2;
>  		oobregion->length = ecc_offset - 2;



-- 
Boris Brezillon, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08 23:33 [PATCH] mtd: nand: warn if hamming layout is used with too large ECC Stefan Agner
2018-02-09  8:50 ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2018-02-09  9:20   ` Stefan Agner
2018-02-09  9:34     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-02-09  9:54     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-02-09 11:51       ` Stefan Agner
2018-02-09  9:58     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-02-09 11:55       ` Stefan Agner
2018-02-12  9:34         ` Boris Brezillon

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