[MTD] NAND Signal that a bitflip was corrected by ECC
Return -EUCLEAN on read when a bitflip was detected and corrected, so the
clients can react and eventually copy the affected block to a spare one.
Make all in kernel users aware of the change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 7522fc3..a48210d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -199,10 +199,13 @@
/* Nand returns -EBADMSG on ecc errors, but it returns
* the data. For our userspace tools it is important
* to dump areas with ecc errors !
+ * For kernel internal usage it also might return -EUCLEAN
+ * to signal the caller that a bitflip has occured and has
+ * been corrected by the ECC algorithm.
* Userspace software which accesses NAND this way
* must be aware of the fact that it deals with NAND
*/
- if (!ret || (ret == -EBADMSG)) {
+ if (!ret || (ret == -EUCLEAN) || (ret == -EBADMSG)) {
*ppos += retlen;
if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, retlen)) {
kfree(kbuf);