Re: [PATCHv2] mtd: spi-nor: Fix Cadence QSPI page fault kernel panic

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 16:49:00 EST


On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:12:17 -0500
thor.thayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The current Cadence QSPI driver caused a kernel panic when loading
> a Root Filesystem from QSPI. The problem was caused by reading more
> bytes than needed because the QSPI operated on 4 bytes at a time.
> <snip>
> [ 7.947754] spi_nor_read[1048]:from 0x037cad74, len 1 [bfe07fff]
> [ 7.956247] cqspi_read[910]:offset 0x58502516, buffer=bfe07fff
> [ 7.956247]
> [ 7.966046] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address bfe08002
> [ 7.973239] pgd = eebfc000
> [ 7.975931] [bfe08002] *pgd=2fffb811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> </snip>
> Notice above how only 1 byte needed to be read but by reading 4 bytes
> into the end of a mapped page, an unrecoverable page fault occurred.
>
> This patch uses a temporary buffer to hold the 4 bytes read and then
> copies only the bytes required into the buffer. A min() function is
> used to limit the length to prevent buffer overflows.
>
> Request testing of this patch on other platforms. This was tested
> on the Intel Arria10 SoCFPGA DevKit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you add a Fixes and Cc-stable tag?

> ---
> v2 Changes to only write dangling bytes at end of transfer since
> previous patch may have multiple dangling byte transfers.
> Remove write patch since no errors reported and write timeout
> needs more investigation.
> ---
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c
> index 4b8e9183489a..5872f31eaa60 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,9 @@ static int cqspi_indirect_read_execute(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 *rxbuf,
> void __iomem *reg_base = cqspi->iobase;
> void __iomem *ahb_base = cqspi->ahb_base;
> unsigned int remaining = n_rx;
> + unsigned int mod_bytes = n_rx % 4;
> unsigned int bytes_to_read = 0;
> + u8 *rxbuf_end = rxbuf + n_rx;
> int ret = 0;
>
> writel(from_addr, reg_base + CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTRDSTARTADDR);
> @@ -530,11 +532,24 @@ static int cqspi_indirect_read_execute(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 *rxbuf,
> }
>
> while (bytes_to_read != 0) {
> + unsigned int word_remain = round_down(remaining, 4);
> +
> bytes_to_read *= cqspi->fifo_width;
> bytes_to_read = bytes_to_read > remaining ?
> remaining : bytes_to_read;
> - ioread32_rep(ahb_base, rxbuf,
> - DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes_to_read, 4));
> + bytes_to_read = round_down(bytes_to_read, 4);
> + /* Read 4 byte word chunks then single bytes */
> + if (bytes_to_read) {
> + ioread32_rep(ahb_base, rxbuf,
> + (bytes_to_read / 4));
> + } else if (!word_remain && mod_bytes) {
> + unsigned int temp = ioread32(ahb_base);
> +
> + bytes_to_read = mod_bytes;
> + memcpy(rxbuf, &temp, min((unsigned int)
> + (rxbuf_end - rxbuf),
> + bytes_to_read));
> + }
> rxbuf += bytes_to_read;
> remaining -= bytes_to_read;
> bytes_to_read = cqspi_get_rd_sram_level(cqspi);