linux-kernel - [PATCH v5] mtd: nand: Use standard large page OOB layout when using NAND_ECC

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Message-Id: <20170826151915.28400-1-miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
Date:   Sat, 26 Aug 2017 17:19:15 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5] mtd: nand: Use standard large page OOB layout when using NAND_ECC_NONE

Use the core's large page OOB layout functions when not reserving any
space for ECC bytes in the OOB layout. Fix ->nand_ooblayout_ecc_lp()
to return -ERANGE instead of a zero length in this case.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index c5221795a1e8..39894c3f0fd5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int nand_ooblayout_ecc_lp(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
 	struct nand_chip *chip = mtd_to_nand(mtd);
 	struct nand_ecc_ctrl *ecc = &chip->ecc;
 
-	if (section)
+	if (section || !ecc->total)
 		return -ERANGE;
 
 	oobregion->length = ecc->total;
@@ -4649,6 +4649,19 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 			mtd_set_ooblayout(mtd, &nand_ooblayout_lp_hamming_ops);
 			break;
 		default:
+			/*
+			 * Expose the whole OOB area to users if ECC_NONE
+			 * is passed. We could do that for all kind of
+			 * ->oobsize, but we must keep the old large/small
+			 * page with ECC layout when ->oobsize <= 128 for
+			 * compatibility reasons.
+			 */
+			if (ecc->mode == NAND_ECC_NONE) {
+				mtd_set_ooblayout(mtd,
+						&nand_ooblayout_lp_ops);
+				break;
+			}
+
 			WARN(1, "No oob scheme defined for oobsize %d\n",
 				mtd->oobsize);
 			ret = -EINVAL;
-- 
2.11.0