linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] mtdchar: fix usage of mtd_ooblayout

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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:30:00 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     OuYang ZhiZhong <ouyzz@...link.com>
Cc:     <dwmw2@...radead.org>, <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>, <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        <richard@....at>, <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <oyzhizhong@...il.com>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mtdchar: fix usage of mtd_ooblayout_ecc()

On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 15:59:07 +0800
OuYang ZhiZhong <ouyzz@...link.com> wrote:

> Section was not properly computed. The value of OOB region definition is
> always ECC section 0 information in the OOB area, but we want to get all
> the ECC bytes information, so we should call
> mtd_ooblayout_ecc(mtd, section++, &oobregion) until it returns -ERANGE.

Applied.

Thanks,

Boris

> 
> Fixes: c2b78452a9db ("mtd: use mtd_ooblayout_xxx() helpers where appropriate")
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: OuYang ZhiZhong <ouyzz@...link.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> index de8c902..7d80a8b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static int shrink_ecclayout(struct mtd_info *mtd,
>  	for (i = 0; i < MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES;) {
>  		u32 eccpos;
>  
> -		ret = mtd_ooblayout_ecc(mtd, section, &oobregion);
> +		ret = mtd_ooblayout_ecc(mtd, section++, &oobregion);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
>  			if (ret != -ERANGE)
>  				return ret;
> @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ static int get_oobinfo(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_oobinfo *to)
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(to->eccpos);) {
>  		u32 eccpos;
>  
> -		ret = mtd_ooblayout_ecc(mtd, section, &oobregion);
> +		ret = mtd_ooblayout_ecc(mtd, section++, &oobregion);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
>  			if (ret != -ERANGE)
>  				return ret;



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Boris Brezillon, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com