On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 10:05:14 UTC, Schrempf Frieder wrote:
> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For reading and writing the bad block markers, spinand->oobbuf is
> currently used as a buffer for the marker bytes. During the
> underlying read and write operations to actually get/set the content
> of the OOB area, the content of spinand->oobbuf is reused and changed
> by accessing it through spinand->oobbuf and/or spinand->databuf.
>
> This is a flaw in the original design of the SPI NAND core and at the
> latest from 13c15e07eedf ("mtd: spinand: Handle the case where
> PROGRAM LOAD does not reset the cache") on, it results in not having
> the bad block marker written at all, as the spinand->oobbuf is
> cleared to 0xff after setting the marker bytes to zero.
>
> To fix it, we now just store the two bytes for the marker on the
> stack and let the read/write operations copy it from/to the page
> buffer later.
>
> Fixes: 7529df465248 ("mtd: nand: Add core infrastructure to support SPI NANDs")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.
Miquel
