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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-04 14:44:16 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-04 14:44:16 +0200
commit695a461296e5df148c99ac087b9e1cb380f4db15 (patch)
tree951893036fdc0b7bae0e17bc739ac8ffe909781d /drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
parentc7084b35eb1a4d3353a501508baf9d3d82822c93 (diff)
parent2b681fafcc50fea6304ed418667c9d04282acb73 (diff)
downloadlinux-695a461296e5df148c99ac087b9e1cb380f4db15.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'amd-iommu/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
index a423131b6171..b847745394b4 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);