[U-Boot] [PATCH] sf: Set current flash bank to 0 in clean_bar()

Jagan Teki jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 18:03:52 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.
>
> This is because the erase command will call write_bar()+clean_bar(),
> which will leave flash->bank_curr = 1 while the hardware BAR registers
> will be set to 0 through clean_bar(). The subsequent write will also
> trigger write_bar()+clean_bar(), but write_bar checks if the target
> bank == flash->bank_curr and if so, does NOT reconfigure the BAR in
> the SPI NOR. Since flash->bank_curr is still 1 and out of sync with
> the HW, the condition matches, BAR programming is skipped and write
> ends up at address 0x0, thus corrupting flash content.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>

Applied to u-boot-spi/master


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