Re: [PATCH] mtd: Make sure the device supports erase operations in mtd_erase()

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:38:01 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Some devices do not implement ->_erase() or have an invalid ->erasesize
> value. In this case, mtd_erase() should return -ENOTSUPP.
> 
> Note that the test is not done on the MTD_NO_ERASE flag because this
> flag means 'erasing a block before writing to it is unnecessary',
> not 'the erase operation is not supported'. Actually, some drivers are
> setting the MTD_NO_ERASE flag but still implementing the ->_erase()
> hook and setting a valid ->erasesize value.

Applied.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index d7ab091b36b2..f24144cbc99c 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -971,10 +971,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_mtd_device);
>   */
>  int mtd_erase(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr)
>  {
> +	if (!mtd->erasesize || !mtd->_erase)
> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> +
>  	if (instr->addr >= mtd->size || instr->len > mtd->size - instr->addr)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	if (!(mtd->flags & MTD_WRITEABLE))
>  		return -EROFS;
> +
>  	instr->fail_addr = MTD_FAIL_ADDR_UNKNOWN;
>  	if (!instr->len) {
>  		instr->state = MTD_ERASE_DONE;



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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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