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

From: Álvaro Fernández Rojas
Date: Thu Feb 25 2021 - 02:54:59 EST


Hi Miquel,

> El 25 feb 2021, a las 8:48, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> Hi Álvaro,
>
> Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
> 13:01:13 -0800:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:02 AM Álvaro Fernández Rojas
>> <noltari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Fixes: 27c5b17cd1b1 ("mtd: nand: add NAND driver "library" for Broadcom STB NAND controller")
>>
>> FWIW, I could believe this was broken. We weren't testing Hamming ECC
>> (nor JFFS2) at the time, so it could easily have obvious bugs like
>> this.
>
> Right, you should probably limit the backport to the time when raw
> accessors got introduced/fixed.

What do you mean?
Those accessors have been there since the first commit (27c5b17cd1b10564fa36f8f51e4b4b41436ecc32):
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/27c5b17cd1b10564fa36f8f51e4b4b41436ecc32/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c#L1896-L1899

>
> Thanks,
> Miquèl

Best regards,
Álvaro.