mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN

The drivers' _read() method, absent an error, returns a non-negative integer
indicating the maximum number of bit errors that were corrected in any one
region comprising an ecc step.  MTD returns -EUCLEAN if this is >=
bitflip_threshold, 0 otherwise.  If bitflip_threshold is zero, the comparison is
not made since these devices lack ECC and always return zero in the non-error
case (thanks Brian)¹.  Note that this is a subtle change to the driver
interface.

This and the preceding patches in this set were tested with ubi on top of the
nandsim and docg4 devices, running the ubi test io_basic from mtd-utils.

¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-March/040468.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index 6a7cba1e24e..575730744fd 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -800,12 +800,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_get_unmapped_area);
 int mtd_read(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t *retlen,
 	     u_char *buf)
 {
+	int ret_code;
 	*retlen = 0;
 	if (from < 0 || from > mtd->size || len > mtd->size - from)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!len)
 		return 0;
-	return mtd->_read(mtd, from, len, retlen, buf);
+
+	/*
+	 * In the absence of an error, drivers return a non-negative integer
+	 * representing the maximum number of bitflips that were corrected on
+	 * any one ecc region (if applicable; zero otherwise).
+	 */
+	ret_code = mtd->_read(mtd, from, len, retlen, buf);
+	if (unlikely(ret_code < 0))
+		return ret_code;
+	if (mtd->ecc_strength == 0)
+		return 0;	/* device lacks ecc */
+	return ret_code >= mtd->bitflip_threshold ? -EUCLEAN : 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_read);