This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: nand: omap: fix BCHx ecc.correct to return detected bit-flips in erased-page
to the 3.14-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-omap-fix-bchx-ecc.correct-to-return-detected-bit-flips-in-erased-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f306e8c3b667632952f1a4a74ffb910bbc06255f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pekon gupta <pekon@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:49:58 +0530
Subject: mtd: nand: omap: fix BCHx ecc.correct to return detected bit-flips in erased-page
From: pekon gupta <pekon@xxxxxx>
commit f306e8c3b667632952f1a4a74ffb910bbc06255f upstream.
fixes: commit 62116e5171e00f85a8d53f76e45b84423c89ff34
mtd: nand: omap2: Support for hardware BCH error correction.
In omap_elm_correct_data(), if bitflip_count in an erased-page is within the
correctable limit (< ecc.strength), then it is not indicated back to the caller
ecc->read_page().
This mis-guides upper layers like MTD and UBIFS layer to assume erased-page as
perfectly clean and use it for writing even if actual bitflip_count was
dangerously high (bitflip_count > mtd->bitflip_threshold).
This patch fixes this above issue, by returning 'stats' to caller
ecc->read_page() under all scenarios.
Reported-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ static int omap_elm_correct_data(struct
/* Check if any error reported */
if (!is_error_reported)
- return 0;
+ return stat;
/* Decode BCH error using ELM module */
elm_decode_bch_error_page(info->elm_dev, ecc_vec, err_vec);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pekon@xxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mtd-nand-omap-fix-bchx-ecc.correct-to-return-detected-bit-flips-in-erased-page.patch
queue-3.14/mtd-elbc-nand-fix-subpage-write-support.patch
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