From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120124023924.120718480@clark.kroah.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:33:42 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Roman Tereshonkov , Artem Bityutskiy , David Woodhouse Subject: [002/129] mtd: mtdoops: skip reading initially bad blocks In-Reply-To: <20120124024041.GA18422@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ Content-Length: 976 Lines: 30 From: Roman Tereshonkov commit 3538c56329936c78f7d356889908790006d0124c upstream. Use block_isbad to check and skip the bad blocks reading. This will allow to get rid of the read errors if bad blocks are present initially. Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c @@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ static void find_next_position(struct mt size_t retlen; for (page = 0; page < cxt->oops_pages; page++) { + if (mtd->block_isbad && + mtd->block_isbad(mtd, page * record_size)) + continue; /* Assume the page is used */ mark_page_used(cxt, page); ret = mtd->read(mtd, page * record_size, MTDOOPS_HEADER_SIZE,