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Message-ID: <0a1d6269-62b2-ebd4-f302-efe14ffa4b66@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:29:55 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, sashal@...nel.org,
david regan <dregan@...l.com>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
"open list:NAND FLASH SUBSYSTEM" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND stable 4.9] mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: Fixed incorrect
sub-page ECC status
On 2/23/2022 10:24 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/23/2022 9:54 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 09:44:31AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> From: david regan <dregan@...l.com>
>>>>
>>>> commit 36415a7964711822e63695ea67fede63979054d9 upstream
>>>>
>>>> The brcmnand driver contains a bug in which if a page (example 2k byte)
>>>> is read from the parallel/ONFI NAND and within that page a subpage (512
>>>> byte) has correctable errors which is followed by a subpage with
>>>> uncorrectable errors, the page read will return the wrong status of
>>>> correctable (as opposed to the actual status of uncorrectable.)
>>>>
>>>> The bug is in function brcmnand_read_by_pio where there is a check for
>>>> uncorrectable bits which will be preempted if a previous status for
>>>> correctable bits is detected.
>>>>
>>>> The fix is to stop checking for bad bits only if we already have a bad
>>>> bits status.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 27c5b17cd1b1 ("mtd: nand: add NAND driver "library" for Broadcom STB NAND controller")
>>>> Signed-off-by: david regan <dregan@...l.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/trinity-478e0c09-9134-40e8-8f8c-31c371225eda-1643237024774@3c-app-mailcom-lxa02
>>>> [florian: make patch apply to 4.14, file was renamed]
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> Why is this a RESEND? What happened with the first set?
>>
>> I forgot to copy stable and you and Sasha, wanted to make it clear to the
>> MTD folks why this is being resent.
>
> But this commit is already in the 4.14.268 and 4.19.231 release, why do
> we need to add it again?
We don't, sorry I got an email that the patch failed to apply and forgot
to check 4.19 and 4.14 thinking they would not be there.
> > For 4.9 we need the backport, I'll take that one...
Thanks!
--
Florian
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