Re: v4.4-stable: GPMI nand controller broken

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:56:21AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The following went into v4.4.120:
> 
> 197190bc5c48 mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM
> 
> This patch was backported to far for the stable tree. It only makes sense
> (and only works) together with:
> 
> bd2e778c9ee3 gpmi-nand: Handle ECC Errors in erased pages
> 
> which first appeared in v4.7.
> 
> So either we revert 197190bc5c48 on the v4.4 stable tree or we apply the
> attached patch which is a backport of bd2e778c9ee3 for v4.4.
> 
> I don't know which solution is prefered, personally I would prefer
> applying the attached patch which is also a bugfix. Without it erased
> pages may not be handled properly.

I've now applied this bugfix, thanks!

greg k-h