mtd: nand: omap: fix BCHx ecc.correct to return detected bit-flips in erased-page
authorpekon gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:19:58 +0000 (18:49 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:18:24 +0000 (11:18 -0700)
commitd2c672058a57e1640205a2afe04fecff75161e56
tree9e488ec19f407d5fdd6c3f6a890a65637100fcad
parentfb4b756348079c378874d232f0f3664be6551aeb
mtd: nand: omap: fix BCHx ecc.correct to return detected bit-flips in erased-page

commit f306e8c3b667632952f1a4a74ffb910bbc06255f upstream.

fixes: commit 62116e5171e00f85a8d53f76e45b84423c89ff34
       mtd: nand: omap2: Support for hardware BCH error correction.

In omap_elm_correct_data(), if bitflip_count in an erased-page is within the
correctable limit (< ecc.strength), then it is not indicated back to the caller
ecc->read_page().

This mis-guides upper layers like MTD and UBIFS layer to assume erased-page as
perfectly clean and use it for writing even if actual bitflip_count was
dangerously high (bitflip_count > mtd->bitflip_threshold).

This patch fixes this above issue, by returning 'stats' to caller
ecc->read_page() under all scenarios.

Reported-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c