[PATCH v1] nvmem: address crc32 check on redundant-layout powerpc machines

From: Christian Lamparter
Date: Fri Nov 04 2022 - 05:48:06 EST


The Western Digital MyBook Live (PowerPC 464/APM82181)
has a set of redundant u-boot-env. Loading up the driver
causes it to error out with:

| u_boot_env: Invalid calculated CRC32: 0x4f8f2c86 (expected: 0x98b14514)
| u_boot_env: probe of partition@1e000 failed with error -22

Looking up the userspace libubootenv utilities source [0],
it looks like the "mark" or "flag" is not part of the
crc32 sum... which is unfortunate :(

|static int libuboot_load(struct uboot_ctx *ctx)
|{
|[...]
| if (ctx->redundant) {
| [...]
| offsetdata = offsetof(struct uboot_env_redund, data);
| [...]
| }
| usable_envsize = ctx->size - offsetdata;
| buf[0] = malloc(bufsize);
|[...]
| for (i = 0; i < copies; i++) {
| data = (uint8_t *)(buf[i] + offsetdata);
| uint32_t crc;
|
| ret = devread(ctx, i, buf[i]);
| [...]
| crc = *(uint32_t *)(buf[i] + offsetcrc);
| dev->crc = crc32(0, (uint8_t *)data, usable_envsize);
|

Now, this alone didn't fully fix the kernel's uboot-env nvmem
driver. The driver then ran into an endian error on the
big-endian powerpc device:

| u_boot_env: Invalid calculated CRC32: 0x1445b198 (expected: 0x98b14514)

however the __le32 type for the crc32 value is justified because the
the crc32() is just a macro for crc32_le(). So, to side-step that
problem, the crc32 check gets extended to also accept a byteswapped
crc32.

[0] https://github.com/sbabic/libubootenv/blob/master/src/uboot_env.c#L951
Fixes: d5542923f200 ("nvmem: add driver handling U-Boot environment variables")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Might it be better to add a dt-property (I wouldn't piggy-pack on
the existing big-endian;) to specify that the crc32 value stored
in the flash/rom is swapped?
---
drivers/nvmem/u-boot-env.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/u-boot-env.c b/drivers/nvmem/u-boot-env.c
index 8e72d1bbd649..f78e2f5d2ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/u-boot-env.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/u-boot-env.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static int u_boot_env_parse(struct u_boot_env *priv)
break;
case U_BOOT_FORMAT_REDUNDANT:
crc32_offset = offsetof(struct u_boot_env_image_redundant, crc32);
- crc32_data_offset = offsetof(struct u_boot_env_image_redundant, mark);
+ crc32_data_offset = offsetof(struct u_boot_env_image_redundant, data);
data_offset = offsetof(struct u_boot_env_image_redundant, data);
break;
}
@@ -144,7 +144,11 @@ static int u_boot_env_parse(struct u_boot_env *priv)
data_len = priv->mtd->size - data_offset;

calc = crc32(~0, buf + crc32_data_offset, crc32_data_len) ^ ~0L;
- if (calc != crc32) {
+ /*
+ * also accept byteswapped crc32 values for compatibility with
+ * existing legacy powerpc devices and userspace tools.
+ */
+ if (calc != crc32 && calc != swab32(crc32)) {
dev_err(dev, "Invalid calculated CRC32: 0x%08x (expected: 0x%08x)\n", calc, crc32);
err = -EINVAL;
goto err_kfree;
--
2.38.1