Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c
index 22ad3140294..ff2a65c37f6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c
@@ -103,3 +103,22 @@ void ubi_calculate_reserved(struct ubi_device *ubi)
 	if (ubi->beb_rsvd_level < MIN_RESEVED_PEBS)
 		ubi->beb_rsvd_level = MIN_RESEVED_PEBS;
 }
+
+/**
+ * ubi_check_pattern - check if buffer contains only a certain byte pattern.
+ * @buf: buffer to check
+ * @patt: the pattern to check
+ * @size: buffer size in bytes
+ *
+ * This function returns %1 in there are only @patt bytes in @buf, and %0 if
+ * something else was also found.
+ */
+int ubi_check_pattern(const void *buf, uint8_t patt, int size)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
+		if (((const uint8_t *)buf)[i] != patt)
+			return 0;
+	return 1;
+}