struct nand_device *nand = spinand_to_nand(spinand);
        struct mtd_info *mtd = nanddev_to_mtd(nand);
        struct nand_page_io_req adjreq = *req;
-       unsigned int nbytes = 0;
-       void *buf = NULL;
+       void *buf = spinand->databuf;
+       unsigned int nbytes;
        u16 column = 0;
        int ret;
 
-       memset(spinand->databuf, 0xff,
-              nanddev_page_size(nand) +
-              nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand));
+       /*
+        * Looks like PROGRAM LOAD (AKA write cache) does not necessarily reset
+        * the cache content to 0xFF (depends on vendor implementation), so we
+        * must fill the page cache entirely even if we only want to program
+        * the data portion of the page, otherwise we might corrupt the BBM or
+        * user data previously programmed in OOB area.
+        */
+       nbytes = nanddev_page_size(nand) + nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand);
+       memset(spinand->databuf, 0xff, nbytes);
+       adjreq.dataoffs = 0;
+       adjreq.datalen = nanddev_page_size(nand);
+       adjreq.databuf.out = spinand->databuf;
+       adjreq.ooblen = nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand);
+       adjreq.ooboffs = 0;
+       adjreq.oobbuf.out = spinand->oobbuf;
 
-       if (req->datalen) {
+       if (req->datalen)
                memcpy(spinand->databuf + req->dataoffs, req->databuf.out,
                       req->datalen);
-               adjreq.dataoffs = 0;
-               adjreq.datalen = nanddev_page_size(nand);
-               adjreq.databuf.out = spinand->databuf;
-               nbytes = adjreq.datalen;
-               buf = spinand->databuf;
-       }
 
        if (req->ooblen) {
                if (req->mode == MTD_OPS_AUTO_OOB)
                else
                        memcpy(spinand->oobbuf + req->ooboffs, req->oobbuf.out,
                               req->ooblen);
-
-               adjreq.ooblen = nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand);
-               adjreq.ooboffs = 0;
-               nbytes += nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand);
-               if (!buf) {
-                       buf = spinand->oobbuf;
-                       column = nanddev_page_size(nand);
-               }
        }
 
        spinand_cache_op_adjust_colum(spinand, &adjreq, &column);
 
                /*
                 * We need to use the RANDOM LOAD CACHE operation if there's
-                * more than one iteration, because the LOAD operation resets
-                * the cache to 0xff.
+                * more than one iteration, because the LOAD operation might
+                * reset the cache to 0xff.
                 */
                if (nbytes) {
                        column = op.addr.val;