diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
index ba37ca9c1260..2d2a216af120 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ static int nand_block_bad(struct nand_chip *chip, loff_t ofs)
 
 static int nand_isbad_bbm(struct nand_chip *chip, loff_t ofs)
 {
+	if (chip->options & NAND_NO_BBM_QUIRK)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (chip->legacy.block_bad)
 		return chip->legacy.block_bad(chip, ofs);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h b/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
index 406e9ff0f45c..0f45b6984ad1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
@@ -221,6 +221,14 @@ enum nand_ecc_algo {
 #define NAND_BBM_SECONDPAGE	BIT(25)
 #define NAND_BBM_LASTPAGE	BIT(26)
 
+/*
+ * Some controllers with pipelined ECC engines override the BBM marker with
+ * data or ECC bytes, thus making bad block detection through bad block marker
+ * impossible. Let's flag those chips so the core knows it shouldn't check the
+ * BBM and consider all blocks good.
+ */
+#define NAND_NO_BBM_QUIRK	BIT(27)
+
 /* Cell info constants */
 #define NAND_CI_CHIPNR_MSK	0x03
 #define NAND_CI_CELLTYPE_MSK	0x0C