This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM
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-gpmi-fix-failure-when-a-erased-page-has-a-bitflip-at-bbm.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 foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:16:23 CET 2018
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:51:40 +0100
Subject: mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
@@ -1025,9 +1025,6 @@ 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;
@@ -1043,6 +1040,9 @@ 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()
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/mtd-nand-gpmi-fix-failure-when-a-erased-page-has-a-bitflip-at-bbm.patch