Bug in cfi_cmdset_0002.c in linux-2.6.8.1

Thayne Harbaugh tharbaugh at lnxi.com
Thu Nov 11 12:45:38 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:10 +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Jochen Karrer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > jffs2 did not work in linux-2.6.8.1 because single word writes at the end
> > of a buffer write are done with the wrong address:
> > 
> > --- /home/jkarrer/kernel/linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
> > Sat Aug 14 12:55:20 2004
> > +++ cfi_cmdset_0002.c	Thu Aug 26 14:33:42 2004
> > @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@
> >  	if (len) {
> >  		size_t retlen_dregs = 0;
> > 
> > -		ret = cfi_amdstd_write_words(mtd, to, len, &retlen_dregs, buf);
> > +		ret = cfi_amdstd_write_words(mtd, ofs + (chipnum<<cfi->chipshift), len,
> > &retlen_dregs, buf);
> > 
> >  		*retlen += retlen_dregs;
> >  		return ret;
> 
> As far as I can see this bug is still not fixed in 2.6.9!
> Is it done in newer versions?

It's fixed in MTD CVS.  I don't know if it has been pushed to Linus.

-- 
Thayne Harbaugh
Linux Networx
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