Merge branch 'for-5.12/google' into for-linus

- User experience improvements for hid-google from Nicolas Boichat

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index 14d890b00d2c..2f3312c31e51 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -535,7 +535,14 @@ int ubi_io_sync_erase(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum, int torture)
 		return -EROFS;
 	}
 
-	if (ubi->nor_flash) {
+	/*
+	 * If the flash is ECC-ed then we have to erase the ECC block before we
+	 * can write to it. But the write is in preparation to an erase in the
+	 * first place. This means we cannot zero out EC and VID before the
+	 * erase and we just have to hope the flash starts erasing from the
+	 * start of the page.
+	 */
+	if (ubi->nor_flash && ubi->mtd->writesize == 1) {
 		err = nor_erase_prepare(ubi, pnum);
 		if (err)
 			return err;