[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/2] mtd: nand: omap: fix ecclayout->oobfree->offset

[Gupta, Pekon]

Hi Brian,

>From: Brian Norris [mailto:computersforpeace at gmail.com]
>>On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:42:57PM +0530, Pekon Gupta wrote:
>> This patch updates starting offset for free bytes in OOB which can be used by
>> file-systems to store their metadata (like clean-marker in case of JFFS2).
>
>This should be describing a regression fix, right? We don't just
>arbitrarily change the "OOB free" layout; we need a reason. So please
>describe it here.
>
>(It seems like an off-by-one, or off-by-<N> error, where the oobfree
>region was miscalculated.)
>
>Possibly you can paste an example intended ecclayout as well as an
>incorrect layout that was calculated before this fix.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c | 17 ++++-------------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c

[...]

>>
>> -	/* populate remaining ECC layout data */
>> -	ecclayout->oobfree->length = mtd->oobsize - (BADBLOCK_MARKER_LENGTH +
>> -							ecclayout->eccbytes);
>>  	for (i = 1; i < ecclayout->eccbytes; i++)
>>  		ecclayout->eccpos[i] = ecclayout->eccpos[0] + i;
>>  	/* check if NAND device's OOB is enough to store ECC signatures */
>> @@ -1990,6 +1977,10 @@ static int omap_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  		err = -EINVAL;
>>  		goto return_error;
>>  	}
>> +	/* populate remaining ECC layout data */
>> +	ecclayout->oobfree->offset = ecclayout->eccpos[ecclayout->eccbytes] + 1;
>
>Hmm, this line seems a little odd. The ecclayout->eccpos[] array and the
>value of ecclayout->eccbytes sould be related as follows:
>
>  let N = ecclayout->eccbytes
>
>  This means the eccpos[] array should have N entries, indexed 0 to N-1,
>  and eccpos[N] is out of bounds. But you are accessing eccpos[N] above
>  (i.e., eccpos[ecclayout->eccbytes]). Are you sure this is correct? It
>  seems like it should be:
>
>	ecclayout->oobfree->offset = ecclayout->eccpos[ecclayout->eccbytes - 1] + 1;
>
Thanks for this catch. Yes, you are correct. It's a typo.
This wasn't caught as I had tested everything on UBIFS which does not use 'oobfree'.
Also, as ecclayout->eccpos is defined as large static array, so this dint caused problems either.
	#define MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES_LARGE	640
	struct nand_ecclayout {
		__u32 eccpos[MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES_LARGE];

But, I think mtd_tests.nand_oobtest  would have caught this. I'll include this change in next version.

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with regards, pekon