[PATCH] jffs2: don't fail on bitflips in OOB

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 04:03:23 EDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 15:01 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> JFFS2 was designed without thought for OOB bitflips, it seems, but they
> can occur and will be reported to JFFS2 via mtd_read_oob()[1]. We don't
> want to fail on these transactions, since the data was corrected.
> 
> [1] Few drivers report bitflips for OOB-only transactions. With such
>     drivers, this patch should have no effect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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