Re: FW: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: qcom: fix memory corruption that causes panic

From: Md Sadre Alam
Date: Thu Apr 14 2022 - 08:21:11 EST


Hi Md,

quic_mdalam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:09:33 +0530:

This patch fixes a memory corruption that occurred in the
nand_scan() path for Hynix nand device.

On boot, for Hynix nand device will panic at a weird place:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000070
| [00000070] *pgd=00000000
| Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-01473-g13ae1769cfb0
#38
| Hardware name: Generic DT based system PC is at
| nandc_set_reg+0x8/0x1c LR is at qcom_nandc_command+0x20c/0x5d0
| pc : [<c088b74c>] lr : [<c088d9c8>] psr: 00000113
| sp : c14adc50 ip : c14ee208 fp : c0cc970c
| r10: 000000a3 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000040
| r7 : c16f6a00 r6 : 00000090 r5 : 00000004 r4 :c14ee040
| r3 : 00000000 r2 : 0000000b r1 : 00000000 r0 :c14ee040
| Flags: nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
| Control: 10c5387d Table: 8020406a DAC: 00000051 Register r0
| information: slab kmalloc-2k start c14ee000 pointer offset
64 size 2048
| Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(ptrval)) nandc_set_reg
| from qcom_nandc_command+0x20c/0x5d0 qcom_nandc_command from
| nand_readid_op+0x198/0x1e8 nand_readid_op from
| hynix_nand_has_valid_jedecid+0x30/0x78
| hynix_nand_has_valid_jedecid from hynix_nand_init+0xb8/0x454
| hynix_nand_init from nand_scan_with_ids+0xa30/0x14a8
| nand_scan_with_ids from qcom_nandc_probe+0x648/0x7b0
| qcom_nandc_probe from platform_probe+0x58/0xac

The problem is that the nand_scan()'s qcom_nand_attach_chip callback
is updating the nandc->max_cwperpage from 1 to 4.This causes the
sg_init_table of clear_bam_transaction() in the driver's
qcom_nandc_command() to memset much more than what was initially
allocated by alloc_bam_transaction().
Thanks for investigating!

This patch will update nandc->max_cwperpage 1 to 4 after nand_scan()
returns, and remove updating nandc->max_cwperpage from
qcom_nand_attach_chip call back.
The fix does not look right, as far as I understand, this should be properly handled during the attach phase. That is where we have all information about the chip and do the configuration for this chip.

If you update max_cwperpage there you should probably update other internal variables that depend on it as well.

   Currently we are updating max_cwperpage  in qcom_nand_attach_chip(), but we are seeing issue for Hynix nand device since nand_scan_tail() is getting called after nand_attach() and in nand_attach() we are updating max_cwperpage to 4 or 8 based on page size.

    From nand_scan_tail() there is a call for nand_manufacturer_init() , specific to Hynix nand read_id is getting called that's why we are seeing this issue only for Hynix nand device. Read id sequence as below

   hynix_nand_has_valid_jedecid()

                |

   nand_readid_op()

             |

 qcom_nandc_command()

            |

pre_command()

          |

clear_bam_transaction()   --> In this call we are doing sg_init_table() which is calling memset() based on max_cwperpage.Since initially we have allocated bam transaction as per max_cwperpage =1 and , since nand_chip_attach() updated max_cwperpage,  now we are doing memset as per max_cwperpage = 4 or 8.


So anyway we have to updated max_cwperpage after nand_scan() call only.  Since there is no other dependency on max_cwperpage in nand_attach_chip() and we are using this in bam_alloc() and bam_clear().


Signed-off-by: Md Sadre Alam <quic_mdalam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <quic_srichara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
index 1a77542..aa3ec45 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
@@ -2652,9 +2652,6 @@ static int qcom_nand_attach_chip(struct
nand_chip *chip)

mtd_set_ooblayout(mtd, &qcom_nand_ooblayout_ops);

- nandc->max_cwperpage = max_t(unsigned int, nandc->max_cwperpage,
- cwperpage);
-
/*
* DATA_UD_BYTES varies based on whether the read/write command protects
* spare data with ECC too. We protect spare data by default, so
we set @@ -2909,7 +2906,7 @@ static int qcom_nand_host_init_and_register(struct qcom_nand_controller *nandc,
struct nand_chip *chip = &host->chip;
struct mtd_info *mtd = nand_to_mtd(chip);
struct device *dev = nandc->dev;
- int ret;
+ int ret, cwperpage;

ret = of_property_read_u32(dn, "reg", &host->cs);
if (ret) {
@@ -2955,6 +2952,9 @@ static int qcom_nand_host_init_and_register(struct qcom_nand_controller *nandc,
if (ret)
return ret;

+ cwperpage = mtd->writesize / NANDC_STEP_SIZE;
+ nandc->max_cwperpage = max_t(unsigned int, nandc->max_cwperpage,
+ cwperpage);
if (nandc->props->is_bam) {
free_bam_transaction(nandc);
nandc->bam_txn = alloc_bam_transaction(nandc);

Thanks,
Miquèl