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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2009-08-10 23:40:50 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2009-08-10 23:40:50 +0200
commitdcbf77cac640af0ab944d5cbb07934bf6708b4d9 (patch)
treee2f4d1b3a1089ee10436cb19740a9cb99f2dc527 /drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
parentc00aafcd4977769e8728292302ddbbb8b1082fab (diff)
parent85dfd81dc57e8183a277ddd7a56aa65c96f3f487 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
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 a423131b617..b847745394b 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);