Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: ecc-bch: Fix the size of calc_buf/code_buf of the BCH

[ycllin@mxic.com.tw]

Hi Miquel,
> "Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> 
> 
> Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: ecc-bch: Fix the size of calc_buf/code_buf of 
the BCH
> 
> Hi YouChing,
> 
> YouChing Lin <ycllin@mxic.com.tw> wrote on Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:22:08
> +0800:
> 
(deleted)
> > The root cause is that the size of calc_buf/code_buf is limited to 64
> > bytes, although sizeof(mtd->oobsize) returns 4, kzalloc() will 
allocate
> > 64 bytes (cache size alignment).
> > 
> > So we correct the size of calc_buf/code_buf to mtd->oobsize.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: YouChing Lin <ycllin@mxic.com.tw>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-bch.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-bch.c 
b/drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-bch.c
> > index 4d8a979..0a0ac11 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-bch.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-bch.c
> > @@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ int nand_ecc_sw_bch_init_ctx(struct nand_device 
*nand)
> > 
> >     engine_conf->code_size = code_size;
> >     engine_conf->nsteps = nsteps;
> > -   engine_conf->calc_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(mtd->oobsize), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -   engine_conf->code_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(mtd->oobsize), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   engine_conf->calc_buf = kzalloc(mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   engine_conf->code_buf = kzalloc(mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Very nice catch! If you don't mind I will merge this fix with the
> faulty commit (still in next) and I will also bring the fix to Hamming
> which will suffer from the same error.
> 
> Then I will apply the second patch.
 
No problem, thank you for your help.


Thanks,
Youching.


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