linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UBI: fix unaligned leb

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:42:40 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: fix unaligned leb_start value

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 15:39 +0100, John Ogness wrote:
> From: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
> 
> The wrong header size was used in calculating the data offset. The
> data offset should be VID header offset + VID header size (aligned to
> the minimum I/O unit).
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>

I've tweaked the commit message and pushed this to the UBI tree, thanks:
http://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6.git/commit/a25376636fa6cee8017a22144652f276840281bf

> ---
> This patch is against linux-next-20110121.
> 
> Since the value is later aligned, this patch does not fix any real
> world problem. But it should be fixed nonetheless.

Not exactly, this does not fix any real problem because UBI_EC_HDR_SIZE
and UBI_VID_HDR_SIZE are currently equivalent :-)

Thank you!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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