[PATCH] mtd: fix size in mtd_info_user to support 64-bit
Miaohe Lin
linmiaohe at huawei.com
Thu Jul 15 18:42:19 PDT 2021
On 2021/7/16 7:02, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Miaohe,
>
> Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe at huawei.com> wrote on Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:13:59
> +0800:
>
>> From: Feilong Lin <linfeilong at huawei.com>
>>
>> The size in struct mtd_info_user is 32-bit, which will cause errors
>> when obtaining the size of large-capacity MTD devices, such as TLC
>> NAND FLASH-2048Gb.
>
> Besides the fact that such devices are far from being supported by the
> Linux kernel, this change would basically break userspace, it cannot
> enter as-is...
>
I see. Many thanks for your reply! We're working with these large-capacity
MTD devices now, any suggestion to work around this?
Thanks again!
>> Fixes: 69423d99fc18 ("[MTD] update internal API to support 64-bit device size")
>> Signed-off-by: Feilong Lin <linfeilong at huawei.com>
>> ---
>> include/uapi/mtd/mtd-abi.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/mtd/mtd-abi.h b/include/uapi/mtd/mtd-abi.h
>> index b869990c2db2..efe0b53b10c1 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/mtd/mtd-abi.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/mtd/mtd-abi.h
>> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ struct mtd_write_req {
>> struct mtd_info_user {
>> __u8 type;
>> __u32 flags;
>> - __u32 size; /* Total size of the MTD */
>> + __u64 size; /* Total size of the MTD */
>> __u32 erasesize;
>> __u32 writesize;
>> __u32 oobsize; /* Amount of OOB data per block (e.g. 16) */
>
> Thanks,
> Miquèl
> .
>
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