[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] arm: sunxi: Add NULL pointer check

Stefan Mavrodiev stefan at olimex.com
Thu Dec 20 12:41:57 UTC 2018


On 12/20/18 2:38 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:38 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/20/18 1:54 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:49 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
>>>> On 12/20/18 12:56 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:18 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/20/18 12:45 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:59 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 12/20/18 12:14 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 3:48 PM Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 5:58 PM Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Current driver doesn't check if the destination pointer is NULL.
>>>>>>>>>>> This cause the data from the FIFO to be stored inside the internal
>>>>>>>>>>> SDRAM ( address 0 ).
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The patch add simple check if the destination pointer is NULL.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>>       drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c | 3 ++-
>>>>>>>>>>>       1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c b/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
>>>>>>>>>>> index b86b5a00ad..38cc743c61 100644
>>>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
>>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/spi/sun4i_spi.c
>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ static inline void sun4i_spi_drain_fifo(struct sun4i_spi_priv *priv, int len)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>              while (len--) {
>>>>>>>>>>>                      byte = readb(&priv->regs->rxdata);
>>>>>>>>>>> -               *priv->rx_buf++ = byte;
>>>>>>>>>>> +               if (priv->rx_buf)
>>>>>>>>>>> +                       *priv->rx_buf++ = byte;
>>>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But, have you tested how much data in the fifo before drained? It's
>>>>>>>>>> better we can get the available data before reading via fifo_sta
>>>>>>>> I don't understand what's the point of doing this?
>>>>>>> Didn't get? don't you understand what I'm saying or it not require
>>>>>>> from point of you?
>>>>>> Maybe I don't understand correctly what you're saying.
>>>>> You comment now and previous mail doesn't match. better be specific.
>>>>>
>>>>> For draining fifo.
>>>>> We can find how much data available before reading from fifo and
>>>>> assign to local rx.
>>>>>
>>>>> static inline void sun4i_spi_drain_fifo(struct sun4i_spi_priv *priv, int len)
>>>>> {
>>>>>           u32 reg, cnt
>>>>>           u8 byte;
>>>>>
>>>>>            /* See how much data is available */
>>>>>            reg = readl(&priv->regs->fifo_sta);
>>>>>            reg &= SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_MASK;
>>>>>            cnt = reg >> SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_BITS;
>>>>>
>>>>>            if (len > cnt)
>>>>>                    len = cnt;
>>>>>
>>>>>            while (len--) {
>>>>>                    byte = readb(&priv->regs->rxdata);
>>>>>                    *priv->rx_buf++ = byte;
>>>>>            }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> This can be perfect drain fifo, and this is what I'm trying to test
>>>>> you with existing code and after your patch and verify whether all the
>>>>> data perfectly drain or not before and after.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope you understand, this time.
>>>> Hope I understood this time...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've made some modification to sun4i_spi_xfer:
>>>>
>>>> static int sun4i_spi_xfer(struct udevice *dev, unsigned int bitlen,
>>>>                  const void *dout, void *din, unsigned long flags)
>>>> {
>>>>        struct udevice *bus = dev->parent;
>>>>        struct sun4i_spi_priv *priv = dev_get_priv(bus);
>>>>        struct dm_spi_slave_platdata *slave_plat =
>>>> dev_get_parent_platdata(dev);
>>>>
>>>>        u32 len = bitlen / 8;
>>>>        u32 reg, cnt;
>>>>        u8 nbytes;
>>>>        int ret;
>>>>
>>>>        priv->tx_buf = dout;
>>>>        priv->rx_buf = din;
>>>>
>>>>        if (bitlen % 8) {
>>>>            debug("%s: non byte-aligned SPI transfer.\n", __func__);
>>>>            return -ENAVAIL;
>>>>        }
>>>>
>>>>        if (flags & SPI_XFER_BEGIN)
>>>>            sun4i_spi_set_cs(bus, slave_plat->cs, true);
>>>>
>>>>        reg = readl(&priv->regs->ctl);
>>>>
>>>>        /* Reset FIFOs */
>>>>        writel(reg | SUN4I_CTL_RF_RST | SUN4I_CTL_TF_RST, &priv->regs->ctl);
>>>>
>>>>        while (len) {
>>>>            /* Setup the transfer now... */
>>>>            nbytes = min(len, (u32)(SUN4I_FIFO_DEPTH - 1));
>>>>
>>>>            if (!priv->rx_buf)
>>>>                printf("%s: Sending %d bytes, ", __func__, nbytes);
>>>>
>>>>            /* Setup the counters */
>>>>            writel(SUN4I_BURST_CNT(nbytes), &priv->regs->bc);
>>>>            writel(SUN4I_XMIT_CNT(nbytes), &priv->regs->tc);
>>>>
>>>>            /* Fill the TX FIFO */
>>>>            sun4i_spi_fill_fifo(priv, nbytes);
>>>>
>>>>            /* Start the transfer */
>>>>            reg = readl(&priv->regs->ctl);
>>>>            writel(reg | SUN4I_CTL_XCH, &priv->regs->ctl);
>>>>
>>>>            /* Wait transfer to complete */
>>>>            ret = wait_for_bit_le32(&priv->regs->ctl, SUN4I_CTL_XCH_MASK,
>>>>                        false, SUN4I_SPI_TIMEOUT_US, false);
>>>>            if (ret) {
>>>>                printf("ERROR: sun4i_spi: Timeout transferring data\n");
>>>>                sun4i_spi_set_cs(bus, slave_plat->cs, false);
>>>>                return ret;
>>>>            }
>>>>
>>>>            /* Drain the RX FIFO */
>>>>            if (!priv->rx_buf) {
>>>>                reg = readl(&priv->regs->fifo_sta);
>>>>                reg &= SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_MASK;
>>>>                cnt = reg >> SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_BITS;
>>>>                printf("rx fifo: before: %d, ", cnt);
>>>>            }
>>>>
>>>>            sun4i_spi_drain_fifo(priv, nbytes);
>>> So it's draining fifo without need to checking the available count
>>> insun4i_spi_drain_fifo(), I mean the below code not require.
>>>
>>>           /* See how much data is available */
>>>           reg = readl(&priv->regs->fifo_sta);
>>>           reg &= SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_MASK;
>>>           cnt = reg >> SUN4I_FIFO_STA_RF_CNT_BITS;
>>>
>>>           if (len > cnt)
>>>                   len = cnt;
>> Yes, I didn't made any modification to sun4i_spi_drain_fifo() function:
> OK, thanks for the details and test.
>
> Please send the v2 with proper commit head it should be "spi: sun4i:  ..."
> Also I didn't find this patch on patchwork, don't know why?

No idea. I can see it here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1008181/



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