[PATCH v3] mtd: mtd_oobtest: generate consitent data for verification

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 22:24:35 PDT 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:13:04PM +0100, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > mtd_oobtest writes OOB, read it back and verify.  The verification is
> > not correctly done if oobsize is not multiple of 4.  Although the data
> > to be written and the data to be compared are generated by several
> > prandom_byte_state() calls starting with the same seed, these two are
> > generated with the different size and different number of calls.
> > 
> > Due to the implementation of prandom_byte_state() if the size on each
> > call is not multiple of 4, the resulting data is not always same.
> > 
> > This fixes it by just calling prandom_byte_state() once and using
> > correct range instead of calling it multiple times for each.
> > 
> With this patch the oobtest works on our i.MX53 platform.
> 
> You can add my:
> Tested-by: <LW at KARO-electronics.de>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git/master. Thanks!

Brian



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