UBIFS seeing corrupt blank pages when image flashed via u-boot

Artem Bityutskiy artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com
Mon Jan 13 07:58:14 EST 2014


On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 17:49 +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> If the 4th to last-page are left blank and not covered with ECC, what
> will happen in case of bit flips on the blank pages? There was an
> issue reported some time back.
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-January/039256.html
> 
> Does UBI/UBIFS take care of this now?

No. UBIFS still assumes that blank pages are ECC-protected by the
driver. No one stepped in and took care of changing this yet.

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Artem Bityutskiy




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