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From: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD-UTILS] Incorrect loop condition
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:45:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A29CA51.1070906@orb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244204148.5847.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Small patch to fix an obvious typo.

If the file contains only a few bytes in the last page and the --oob option is selected, the loop may exit early (readlen < meminfo.oobsize).
Most of the time it will still work though because the code tries to read the whole OOB in one chunk.

Signed-off-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>

--- a/nandwrite.c	2009-06-01 18:03:55.000000000 -0700
+++ b/nandwrite.c	2009-06-05 18:32:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 		if (writeoob) {
 			int tinycnt = 0;
 
-			while(tinycnt < readlen) {
+			while(tinycnt < meminfo.oobsize) {
 				cnt = read(ifd, oobreadbuf + tinycnt, meminfo.oobsize - tinycnt);
 				if (cnt == 0) { // EOF
 					break;

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-06  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04  1:18 [PATCH] [MTD-UTILS] Incorrect loop condition Nahor
2009-06-05 12:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-06  1:45   ` Jehan Bing [this message]
2009-06-08  6:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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