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

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Feb 23 2021 - 22:47:08 EST




On 2/22/2021 12:16 PM, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
> Hamming ECC doesn't cover the OOB data, so reading or writing OOB shall
> always be done without ECC enabled.
> This is a problem when adding JFFS2 cleanmarkers to erased blocks. If JFFS2
> clenmarkers are added to the OOB with ECC enabled, OOB bytes will be changed
> from ff ff ff to 00 00 00, reporting incorrect ECC errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@xxxxxxxxx>

Should there be a Fixes: tag provided here for back porting to stable trees?
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Florian