[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] mtd: nand-base: fix bug writing 1 byte less than page size

[Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>]

On 07/18/2016 09:18 AM, Hector Palacios wrote:
> nand_do_write_ops() determines if it is writing a partial page with the
> formula:
> 	if (column || (writelen < mtd->writesize - 1))
> 
> When 'writelen' is exactly 1 byte less than the NAND page size the formula
> equates to zero, so the code doesn't process it as a partial write, although
> it should.
> As a consequence the function remains in the while(1) loop with 'writelen'
> becoming 0xffffffff and iterating until the watchdog timeout triggers.
> 
> To reproduce the issue on a NAND with 2K page (0x800):
> 	=> nand erase.part <partition>
> 	=> nand write $loadaddr <partition> 7ff
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
> 
> https://jira.digi.com/browse/DUB-619
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index c0e381ad2d15..cb15bb21e2f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -2524,7 +2524,7 @@ static int nand_do_write_ops(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to,
>  
>  		WATCHDOG_RESET();
>  		/* Partial page write? */
> -		if (unlikely(column || writelen < (mtd->writesize - 1))) {
> +		if (unlikely(column || writelen < mtd->writesize)) {
>  			cached = 0;
>  			bytes = min_t(int, bytes - column, (int) writelen);
>  			chip->pagebuf = -1;
> 

Please disregard. This patch was generated over U-Boot v2015.04.
I sent a corrected v2 patch.

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Hector Palacios