This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-nand-pxa3xx-fix-readoob-implementation.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fee4380f368e84ed216b62ccd2fbc4126f2bf40b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:32:45 +0100 Subject: mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit fee4380f368e84ed216b62ccd2fbc4126f2bf40b upstream. In the current driver, OOB bytes are accessed in raw mode, and when a page access is done with NDCR_SPARE_EN set and NDCR_ECC_EN cleared, the driver must read the whole spare area (64 bytes in case of a 2k page, 16 bytes for a 512 page). The driver was only reading the free OOB bytes, which was leaving some unread data in the FIFO and was somehow leading to a timeout. We could patch the driver to read ->spare_size + ->ecc_size instead of just ->spare_size when READOOB is requested, but we'd better make in-band and OOB accesses consistent. Since the driver is always accessing in-band data in non-raw mode (with the ECC engine enabled), we should also access OOB data in this mode. That's particularly useful when using the BCH engine because in this mode the free OOB bytes are also ECC protected. Fixes: 43bcfd2bb24a ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add driver-specific ECC BCH support") Reported-by: Sean Nyekjær <sean.nyekjaer@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sean Nyekjaer <sean.nyekjaer@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ static void prepare_start_command(struct switch (command) { case NAND_CMD_READ0: + case NAND_CMD_READOOB: case NAND_CMD_PAGEPROG: info->use_ecc = 1; case NAND_CMD_READOOB: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/mtd-nand-pxa3xx-fix-readoob-implementation.patch