NOR read/write beyond end of flash partition

[Tigadi Kiran-r10350c]

Hi Artem,

Please find attached patch for drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c file to fix NOR read beyond flash. Let me know whether it is valid fix.

Regards,
Kiran

-----Original Message-----
From: Artem Bityutskiy [mailto:dedekind at infradead.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:57 PM
To: Tigadi Kiran-r10350c
Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NOR read/write beyond end of flash partition

Hello,

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:45 +0530, Tigadi Kiran-r10350c wrote:
> But mtd_read routine implemented in the same file does not have this
> check. So when I try to read beyond end of NOR MTD partition it is
> returning 0. 

Sounds like a bug, feel free to send a patch against mtd-2.6.git tree.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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