diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 01946b7..9d01c4d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -1174,13 +1174,14 @@
 	int data_col_addr, i, gaps = 0;
 	int datafrag_len, eccfrag_len, aligned_len, aligned_pos;
 	int busw = (chip->options & NAND_BUSWIDTH_16) ? 2 : 1;
-	int index = 0;
+	int index;
 	unsigned int max_bitflips = 0;
 
 	/* Column address within the page aligned to ECC size (256bytes) */
 	start_step = data_offs / chip->ecc.size;
 	end_step = (data_offs + readlen - 1) / chip->ecc.size;
 	num_steps = end_step - start_step + 1;
+	index = start_step * chip->ecc.bytes;
 
 	/* Data size aligned to ECC ecc.size */
 	datafrag_len = num_steps * chip->ecc.size;
@@ -1217,8 +1218,6 @@
 		 * Send the command to read the particular ECC bytes take care
 		 * about buswidth alignment in read_buf.
 		 */
-		index = start_step * chip->ecc.bytes;
-
 		aligned_pos = eccpos[index] & ~(busw - 1);
 		aligned_len = eccfrag_len;
 		if (eccpos[index] & (busw - 1))