---

yaml
---
r: 156596
b: refs/heads/master
c: 32bc482
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7194e6f9c083e87171ddfc8b746f05e007f58132
+refs/heads/master: 32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641

trunk/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);