From e62ea740c5e4edb37065193c400a3a82d5479c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafał Miłecki Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:00:25 +0100 Subject: nandwrite: warn about writing 0xff blocks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Such blocks may be incorrectly treated as empty (even though they may have non-erase OOB). Warn about it so people may start useing --skip-all-ffs . Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer --- nand-utils/nandwrite.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'nand-utils') diff --git a/nand-utils/nandwrite.c b/nand-utils/nandwrite.c index e8a210c..cd53a17 100644 --- a/nand-utils/nandwrite.c +++ b/nand-utils/nandwrite.c @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[]) libmtd_t mtd_desc; int ebsize_aligned; uint8_t write_mode; + size_t all_ffs_cnt = 0; process_options(argc, argv); @@ -417,6 +418,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[]) */ while ((imglen > 0 || writebuf < filebuf + filebuf_len) && mtdoffset < mtd.size) { + bool allffs; + /* * New eraseblock, check for bad block(s) * Stay in the loop to be sure that, if mtdoffset changes because @@ -555,7 +558,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[]) } ret = 0; - if (!skipallffs || !buffer_check_pattern(writebuf, mtd.min_io_size, 0xff)) { + allffs = buffer_check_pattern(writebuf, mtd.min_io_size, 0xff); + if (!allffs || !skipallffs) { /* Write out data */ ret = mtd_write(mtd_desc, &mtd, fd, mtdoffset / mtd.eb_size, mtdoffset % mtd.eb_size, @@ -564,6 +568,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[]) writeoob ? oobbuf : NULL, writeoob ? mtd.oob_size : 0, write_mode); + if (!ret && allffs) + all_ffs_cnt++; } if (ret) { @@ -615,6 +621,11 @@ closeall: || (writebuf < filebuf + filebuf_len)) sys_errmsg_die("Data was only partially written due to error"); + if (all_ffs_cnt) { + fprintf(stderr, "Written %zu blocks containing only 0xff bytes\n", all_ffs_cnt); + fprintf(stderr, "Those block may be incorrectly treated as empty!\n"); + } + /* Return happy */ return EXIT_SUCCESS; } -- cgit v1.2.3