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-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);