[U-Boot] [PATCH] sf: Set current flash bank to 0 in clean_bar()
Jagan Teki
jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 13:27:35 UTC 2018
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> The clean_bar() function resets the SPI NOR BAR register to 0, but
> does not set the flash->curr_bar to 0 , therefore those two can get
> out of sync, which could ultimatelly result in corrupted flash content.
>
> The simplest test case is this:
>
> => mw 0x10000000 0x1234abcd 0x4000
> => sf probe
> => sf erase 0x1000000 0x10000
> => sf write 0x10000000 0x1000000 0x10000
>
> => sf probe ; sf read 0x12000000 0 0x10000 ; md 0x12000000
>
> That is, erase a sector above the 16 MiB boundary and write it with
> random pre-configured data. What will actually happen without this
> patch is the sector will be erased, but the data will be written to
> BAR 0 offset 0x0 in the flash.
Why it would write it at 0x0
write ops -> write_bar -> identifies bank sel (here it's 1) -> write
bank register -> flash->bank_curr
then actual data will written from 16MB offset and call clean_bar
Jagan.
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