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

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu May 24 19:58:40 UTC 2018


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>
---
 drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
index 2911729b28..1b61095859 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static int clean_bar(struct spi_flash *flash)
 	if (flash->bank_curr == 0)
 		return 0;
 	cmd = flash->bank_write_cmd;
+	flash->bank_curr = 0;
 
 	return spi_flash_write_common(flash, &cmd, 1, &bank_sel, 1);
 }
-- 
2.16.2



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