linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: ubi: fix improper return value

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Message-ID: <1480921774.2583.351.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:09:34 +0200
From:   Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Pan Bian <bianpan201604@....com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: ubi: fix improper return value

On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 21:52 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> We should better think about how to get ubi_self_check_all_ff()
> fixed.
> When enabled on a modern NAND, vmalloc() is likely to fail now and
> then
> since len is the erase block size and can be up to a few mega bytes.

I did an attempt to switch from virtually continuous buffers to an
array of page pointers, but never finished.