From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936129Ab1KJDzp (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2011 22:55:45 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45134 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965784Ab1KJDsW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2011 22:48:22 -0500 X-Mailbox-Line: From gregkh@clark.kroah.org Wed Nov 9 13:32:07 2011 Message-Id: <20111109213207.280090977@clark.kroah.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-16.4 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:34:53 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Peter Wippich , Artem Bityutskiy Subject: [246/264] mtd: mtdchar: add missing initializer on raw write In-Reply-To: <20111109213508.GA3476@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Wippich commit bf5140817b2d65faac9b32fc9057a097044ac35b upstream. On writes in MODE_RAW the mtd_oob_ops struct is not sufficiently initialized which may cause nandwrite to fail. With this patch it is possible to write raw nand/oob data without additional ECC (either for testing or when some sectors need different oob layout e.g. bootloader) like nandwrite -n -r -o /dev/mtd0 Signed-off-by: Peter Wippich Tested-by: Ricard Wanderlof Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ static ssize_t mtd_write(struct file *fi ops.mode = MTD_OOB_RAW; ops.datbuf = kbuf; ops.oobbuf = NULL; + ops.ooboffs = 0; ops.len = len; ret = mtd->write_oob(mtd, *ppos, &ops);