[PATCH v2] mtd: Fix partition alignment check on multi-erasesize devices

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Mon Sep 25 01:19:57 PDT 2017


Commit 1eeef2d7483a ("mtd: handle partitioning on devices with 0
erasesize") introduced a regression on heterogeneous erase region
devices. Alignment of the partition was tested against the master
eraseblock size which can be bigger than the slave one, thus leading
to some partitions being marked as read-only.

Update wr_alignment to match this slave erasesize after this erasesize
has been determined by picking the biggest erasesize of all the regions
embedded in the MTD partition.

Reported-by: Mathias Thore <Mathias.Thore at infinera.com>
Fixes: 1eeef2d7483a ("mtd: handle partitioning on devices with 0 erasesize")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Fix build error reported by Mathias
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index 5736b0c90b33..a308e707392d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -581,6 +581,14 @@ static struct mtd_part *allocate_partition(struct mtd_info *parent,
 		slave->mtd.erasesize = parent->erasesize;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Slave erasesize might differ from the master one if the master
+	 * exposes several regions with different erasesize. Adjust
+	 * wr_alignment accordingly.
+	 */
+	if (!(slave->mtd.flags & MTD_NO_ERASE))
+		wr_alignment = slave->mtd.erasesize;
+
 	tmp = slave->offset;
 	remainder = do_div(tmp, wr_alignment);
 	if ((slave->mtd.flags & MTD_WRITEABLE) && remainder) {
-- 
2.11.0




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