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| author | Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> | 2018-03-03 11:45:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> | 2018-04-04 23:48:11 +0200 |
| commit | b5094b7f135be34630e3ea8a98fa215715d0f29d (patch) | |
| tree | be3e766fbb41221942f50e9bbebc710a91d5d3b3 /drivers/mtd | |
| parent | 4fb1cd82302e2aa87bb4876d67f3ed679f1f4a04 (diff) | |
ubi: Reject MLC NAND
While UBI and UBIFS seem to work at first sight with MLC NAND, you will
most likely lose all your data upon a power-cut or due to read/write
disturb.
In order to protect users from bad surprises, refuse to attach to MLC
NAND.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c index e941395de3ae..753494e042d5 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c @@ -854,6 +854,17 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num, return -EINVAL; } + /* + * Both UBI and UBIFS have been designed for SLC NAND and NOR flashes. + * MLC NAND is different and needs special care, otherwise UBI or UBIFS + * will die soon and you will lose all your data. + */ + if (mtd->type == MTD_MLCNANDFLASH) { + pr_err("ubi: refuse attaching mtd%d - MLC NAND is not supported\n", + mtd->index); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (ubi_num == UBI_DEV_NUM_AUTO) { /* Search for an empty slot in the @ubi_devices array */ for (ubi_num = 0; ubi_num < UBI_MAX_DEVICES; ubi_num++) |