[PATCH 2/3] mtd: rawnand: sunxi: reserve a full user-data word for BBM

From: James Hilliard

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 02:02:50 EST


H6/H616 protected user-data lengths are encoded in four-byte units,
but ECC maximization reserves only the two bad block marker bytes. A
strength leaving fewer than four bytes therefore selects a zero-byte
first user-data section.

The OOB layout then subtracts the two marker bytes from that unsigned
zero length, and the controller has no protected user-data word in which
to store the marker.

Reserve one complete user-data word while maximizing ECC, reject
configurations which produce no ECC sectors or a shorter first section,
and make the OOB iterator bounds-safe.

Fixes: 54dcd6aa69db ("mtd: rawnand: sunxi: introduce maximize variable user data length")
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
index 108161fe10cb..01a0d0fa7b62 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sunxi_nand.c
@@ -1991,7 +1991,7 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
struct nand_chip *nand = mtd_to_nand(mtd);
struct nand_ecc_ctrl *ecc = &nand->ecc;
struct sunxi_nand_chip *sunxi_nand = to_sunxi_nand(nand);
- unsigned int user_data_sz = sunxi_nfc_user_data_sz(sunxi_nand, section);
+ unsigned int user_data_sz;

/*
* The controller does not provide access to OOB bytes
@@ -2000,6 +2000,8 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
if (section >= ecc->steps)
return -ERANGE;

+ user_data_sz = sunxi_nfc_user_data_sz(sunxi_nand, section);
+
/*
* The first 2 bytes are used for BB markers, hence we
* only have user_data_sz - 2 bytes available in the first user data
@@ -2007,7 +2009,7 @@ static int sunxi_nand_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
*/
if (section == 0) {
oobregion->offset = 2;
- oobregion->length = user_data_sz - 2;
+ oobregion->length = user_data_sz > 2 ? user_data_sz - 2 : 0;

return 0;
}
@@ -2041,6 +2043,9 @@ static int sunxi_nfc_maximize_user_data(struct nand_chip *nand, uint32_t oobsize
int remaining_bytes = oobsize - (ecc_bytes * nsectors);
int i, step;

+ if (nsectors <= 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes = devm_kzalloc(nfc->dev, nsectors,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes)
@@ -2056,6 +2061,8 @@ static int sunxi_nfc_maximize_user_data(struct nand_chip *nand, uint32_t oobsize
if (sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes[step] == 0)
break;
}
+ if (sunxi_nand->user_data_bytes[0] < USER_DATA_SZ)
+ return -EINVAL;

return 0;
}
@@ -2103,10 +2110,10 @@ static int sunxi_nand_hw_ecc_ctrl_init(struct nand_chip *nand,
bytes -= total_user_data_sz;
} else {
/*
- * remove at least the BBM size before computing the
- * max ECC
+ * User-data lengths are encoded in four-byte units. Reserve
+ * the first word because it contains the two BBM bytes.
*/
- bytes -= 2;
+ bytes -= USER_DATA_SZ;
}

/*

--
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