[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 10/10] arm: bootm: fix sp detection at end of address range

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 19:50:06 UTC 2018


Am 18.12.2018 um 16:55 schrieb Frank Wunderlich:
> Hi,
> 
> seems that Patch0 does not receive Mailinglist and my answer to it got blocked...
> 
> i get:
> 
> arch/arm/lib/bootm.c: In function ‘arch_lmb_reserve’:
> arch/arm/lib/bootm.c:67:8: error: ‘bi_dram’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘blk_dread’?
>     if (!bi_dram[bank].size || sp < gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start)
>          ^~~~~~~
>          blk_dread
> 
> which i fixed this way:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
> index e9a333af0e..48bb41249e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ void arch_lmb_reserve(struct lmb *lmb)
>          /* adjust sp by 4K to be safe */
>          sp -= 4096;
>          for (bank = 0; bank < CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS; bank++) {
> -               if (!bi_dram[bank].size || sp < gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start)
> +               if (!gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].size || sp < gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start)
>                          continue;
>                  /* Watch out for RAM at end of address space! */
>                  bank_end = gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start +
> 

D'Oh! Don't know how that could have slipped through. Seems I was a 
little hasty in adding this last patch :-(

Your fix is of course correct. I'll submit v9 :-/

> after that at least sp_start is protected
> 
> U-Boot> bd
> arch_number = 0x00000000
> boot_params = 0x80000100
> DRAM bank   = 0x00000000
> -> start    = 0x80000000
> -> size     = 0x80000000
> current eth = unknown
> ip_addr     = <NULL>
> baudrate    = 115200 bps
> TLB addr    = 0xFFFF0000
> relocaddr   = 0xFFF9C000
> reloc off   = 0x7E19C000
> irq_sp      = 0xFFB9AED0
> sp start    = 0xFFB9AEC0
> Early malloc usage: 318 / 4000
> fdt_blob = fffd0be0
> 
> U-Boot> setenv scriptaddr 0xFFB9AEC0
> U-Boot> fatload ${device} ${partition} ${scriptaddr} ${bpi}/${board}/${service}/${bootenv};
> ** Reading file would overwrite reserved memory **
> 
> same with relocaddr -x
> 
> U-Boot> setenv scriptaddr 0xFFF9BF00
> U-Boot> fatload ${device} ${partition} ${scriptaddr} ${bpi}/${board}/${service}/
> ${bootenv};
> ** Reading file would overwrite reserved memory **

So, yay, it finally works for you!

Thanks for testing!

Regards,
Simon

> 
> regards Frank
> 
>> Gesendet: Montag, 17. Dezember 2018 um 21:08 Uhr
>> Von: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>> An: "Tom Rini" <trini at konsulko.com>, u-boot at lists.denx.de, "Joe Hershberger" <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
>> Cc: "Heinrich Schuchardt" <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>, "Fabio Estevam" <festevam at gmail.com>, "Andrea Barisani" <andrea.barisani at f-secure.com>, "Frank Wunderlich" <frank-w at public-files.de>, "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>, "Simon Glass" <sjg at chromium.org>, "Masahiro Yamada" <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>, "Tom Warren" <twarren at nvidia.com>, "Bin Meng" <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>, "Vasyl Vavrychuk" <vvavrychuk at gmail.com>, "Albert Aribaud" <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>, "Hannes Schmelzer" <hannes.schmelzer at br-automation.com>, "Stephen Warren" <swarren at nvidia.com>
>> Betreff: [PATCH v8 10/10] arm: bootm: fix sp detection at end of address range
>>
>> This fixes  'arch_lmb_reserve()' for ARM that tries to detect in which
>> DRAM bank 'sp' is in.
>>
>> This code failed if a bank was at the end of physical address range
>> (i.e. size + length overflowed to 0).
>>
>> To fix this, calculate 'bank_end' as 'size + length - 1' so that such
>> banks end at 0xffffffff, not 0.
>>
>> Fixes: 15751403b6 ("ARM: bootm: don't assume sp is in DRAM bank 0")
>> Reported-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v8:
>> - this patch is new in v8
>>
>> Changes in v7: None
>> Changes in v6: None
>> Changes in v5: None
>> Changes in v4: None
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>>   arch/arm/lib/bootm.c | 9 +++++----
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
>> index c3c1d2fdfa..e9a333af0e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
>> @@ -64,13 +64,14 @@ void arch_lmb_reserve(struct lmb *lmb)
>>   	/* adjust sp by 4K to be safe */
>>   	sp -= 4096;
>>   	for (bank = 0; bank < CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS; bank++) {
>> -		if (sp < gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start)
>> +		if (!bi_dram[bank].size || sp < gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start)
>>   			continue;
>> +		/* Watch out for RAM at end of address space! */
>>   		bank_end = gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].start +
>> -			gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].size;
>> -		if (sp >= bank_end)
>> +			gd->bd->bi_dram[bank].size - 1;
>> +		if (sp > bank_end)
>>   			continue;
>> -		lmb_reserve(lmb, sp, bank_end - sp);
>> +		lmb_reserve(lmb, sp, bank_end - sp + 1);
>>   		break;
>>   	}
>>   }
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>



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