[PATCH 2/3] mtd: rawnand: sunxi: reserve a full user-data word for BBM

James Hilliard james.hilliard1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 23:02:00 PDT 2026


H6/H616 protected user-data lengths are encoded in four-byte units,
but ECC maximization reserves only the two bad block marker bytes. A
strength leaving fewer than four bytes therefore selects a zero-byte
first user-data section.

The OOB layout then subtracts the two marker bytes from that unsigned
zero length, and the controller has no protected user-data word in which
to store the marker.

Reserve one complete user-data word while maximizing ECC, reject
configurations which produce no ECC sectors or a shorter first section,
and make the OOB iterator bounds-safe.

Fixes: 54dcd6aa69db ("mtd: rawnand: sunxi: introduce maximize variable user data length")
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
index 108161fe10cb..01a0d0fa7b62 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
@@ -1991,7 +1991,7 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
 	struct nand_chip *nand = mtd_to_nand(mtd);
 	struct nand_ecc_ctrl *ecc = &nand->ecc;
 	struct sunxi_nand_chip *sunxi_nand = to_sunxi_nand(nand);
-	unsigned int user_data_sz = sunxi_nfc_user_data_sz(sunxi_nand, section);
+	unsigned int user_data_sz;
 
 	/*
 	 * The controller does not provide access to OOB bytes
@@ -2000,6 +2000,8 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
 	if (section >= ecc->steps)
 		return -ERANGE;
 
+	user_data_sz = sunxi_nfc_user_data_sz(sunxi_nand, section);
+
 	/*
 	 * The first 2 bytes are used for BB markers, hence we
 	 * only have user_data_sz - 2 bytes available in the first user data
@@ -2007,7 +2009,7 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
 	 */
 	if (section == 0) {
 		oobregion->offset = 2;
-		oobregion->length = user_data_sz - 2;
+		oobregion->length = user_data_sz > 2 ? user_data_sz - 2 : 0;
 
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -2041,6 +2043,9 @@ static int sunxi_nfc_maximize_user_data(struct nand_chip *nand, uint32_t oobsize
 	int remaining_bytes = oobsize - (ecc_bytes * nsectors);
 	int i, step;
 
+	if (nsectors <= 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes = devm_kzalloc(nfc->dev, nsectors,
 						   GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes)
@@ -2056,6 +2061,8 @@ static int sunxi_nfc_maximize_user_data(struct nand_chip *nand, uint32_t oobsize
 		if (sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes[step] == 0)
 			break;
 	}
+	if (sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes[0] < USER_DATA_SZ)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -2103,10 +2110,10 @@ static int sunxi_nand_hw_ecc_ctrl_init(struct nand_chip *nand,
 			bytes -= total_user_data_sz;
 		} else {
 			/*
-			 * remove at least the BBM size before computing the
-			 * max ECC
+			 * User-data lengths are encoded in four-byte units. Reserve
+			 * the first word because it contains the two BBM bytes.
 			 */
-			bytes -= 2;
+			bytes -= USER_DATA_SZ;
 		}
 
 		/*

-- 
2.53.0




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