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| author | Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com> | 2009-07-24 19:16:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2009-07-24 20:08:52 +0300 |
| commit | 32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d7968ed99b21f84e41adfda4709dbf4acf585e7 /drivers | |
| parent | 7194e6f9c083e87171ddfc8b746f05e007f58132 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641.zip op-kernel-dev-32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641.tar.gz | |
UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbers
Fall back onto thinking everything's OK if either of the sequence
numbers we are asked to compare is zero, which is what was used
before sequence numbers were introduced.
[ Artem: modified the patch to be applicable to upstream UBI, added
big comment ]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c index a423131..b847745 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c @@ -781,11 +781,22 @@ static int process_eb(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si, return -EINVAL; } + /* + * Make sure that all PEBs have the same image sequence number. + * This allows us to detect situations when users flash UBI + * images incorrectly, so that the flash has the new UBI image + * and leftovers from the old one. This feature was added + * relatively recently, and the sequence number was always + * zero, because old UBI implementations always set it to zero. + * For this reasons, we do not panic if some PEBs have zero + * sequence number, while other PEBs have non-zero sequence + * number. + */ image_seq = be32_to_cpu(ech->image_seq); if (!si->image_seq_set) { ubi->image_seq = image_seq; si->image_seq_set = 1; - } else if (ubi->image_seq != image_seq) { + } else if (ubi->image_seq && ubi->image_seq != image_seq) { ubi_err("bad image sequence number %d in PEB %d, " "expected %d", image_seq, pnum, ubi->image_seq); ubi_dbg_dump_ec_hdr(ech); |
