diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
index 227cfb2..fa66663 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
@@ -1229,19 +1229,33 @@
 			     const u8 *oob, int sas, int sector_1k)
 {
 	int tbytes = sas << sector_1k;
-	int j;
+	int j, k = 0;
+	u32 last = 0xffffffff;
+	u8 *plast = (u8 *)&last;
 
 	/* Adjust OOB values for 1K sector size */
 	if (sector_1k && (i & 0x01))
 		tbytes = max(0, tbytes - (int)ctrl->max_oob);
 	tbytes = min_t(int, tbytes, ctrl->max_oob);
 
-	for (j = 0; j < tbytes; j += 4)
+	/*
+	 * tbytes may not be multiple of words. Make sure we don't read out of
+	 * the boundary and stop at last word.
+	 */
+	for (j = 0; (j + 3) < tbytes; j += 4)
 		oob_reg_write(ctrl, j,
 				(oob[j + 0] << 24) |
 				(oob[j + 1] << 16) |
 				(oob[j + 2] <<  8) |
 				(oob[j + 3] <<  0));
+
+	/* handle the remaing bytes */
+	while (j < tbytes)
+		plast[k++] = oob[j++];
+
+	if (tbytes & 0x3)
+		oob_reg_write(ctrl, (tbytes & ~0x3), (__force u32)cpu_to_be32(last));
+
 	return tbytes;
 }