[PATCH v2] nand: brcmnand: fix OOB R/W with Hamming ECC

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Mar 2 16:32:12 GMT 2021


On Wed, 2021-02-24 at 08:02:10 UTC, =?utf-8?q?=C3=81lvaro_Fern=C3=A1ndez_Rojas?= wrote:
> Hamming ECC doesn't cover the OOB data, so reading or writing OOB shall
> always be done without ECC enabled.
> This is a problem when adding JFFS2 cleanmarkers to erased blocks. If JFFS2
> clenmarkers are added to the OOB with ECC enabled, OOB bytes will be changed
> from ff ff ff to 00 00 00, reporting incorrect ECC errors.
> 
> Fixes: 27c5b17cd1b1 ("mtd: nand: add NAND driver "library" for Broadcom STB NAND controller")
> Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel



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