linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 07/56] mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM

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Date:   Fri,  2 Mar 2018 09:50:53 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 07/56] mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>


[ Upstream commit fdf2e821052958a114618a95ab18a300d0b080cb ]

When erased subpages are read then the BCH decoder returns STATUS_ERASED
if they are all empty, or STATUS_UNCORRECTABLE if there are bitflips.
When there are bitflips, we have to set these bits again to show the
upper layers a completely erased page. When a bitflip happens in the
exact byte where the bad block marker is, then this byte is swapped
with another byte in block_mark_swapping(). The correction code then
detects a bitflip in another subpage and no longer corrects the bitflip
where it really happens.

Correct this behaviour by calling block_mark_swapping() after the
bitflips have been corrected.

In our case UBIFS failed with this bug because it expects erased
pages to be really empty:

UBIFS error (pid 187): ubifs_scan: corrupt empty space at LEB 36:118735
UBIFS error (pid 187): ubifs_scanned_corruption: corruption at LEB 36:118735
UBIFS error (pid 187): ubifs_scanned_corruption: first 8192 bytes from LEB 36:118735
UBIFS error (pid 187): ubifs_scan: LEB 36 scanning failed
UBIFS error (pid 187): do_commit: commit failed, error -117

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
@@ -1059,9 +1059,6 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_page(struct mtd
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	/* handle the block mark swapping */
-	block_mark_swapping(this, payload_virt, auxiliary_virt);
-
 	/* Loop over status bytes, accumulating ECC status. */
 	status = auxiliary_virt + nfc_geo->auxiliary_status_offset;
 
@@ -1150,6 +1147,9 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_page(struct mtd
 		max_bitflips = max_t(unsigned int, max_bitflips, *status);
 	}
 
+	/* handle the block mark swapping */
+	block_mark_swapping(this, buf, auxiliary_virt);
+
 	if (oob_required) {
 		/*
 		 * It's time to deliver the OOB bytes. See gpmi_ecc_read_oob()