[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Check image loaded or not before calling flash

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 13 16:52:49 AEDT 2015


On 02/13/2015 02:57 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 15:23 +0530, Vasant Hegde wrote:
>> Present code checks for update_flash_data in opal_flash_term_callback().
>> update_flash_data has been statically initialized to zero, and that
>> is the value of FLASH_IMG_READY. Also code update initialization happens
>> during subsys init.
> 
> Please statically initialize it to a sane value instead.

Ok. Will fix and send v2 soon. Thanks!


-Vasant

> 
>> So if reboot is issued before the subsys init stage then we endup displaying
>> "Flashing new firmware" message.. which may confuse end user.
>>
>> This patch adds additional validation to make sure image is actually loaded
>> or not.
>>
>> Reported-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-flash.c |    3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-flash.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-flash.c
>> index 5c21d9c..5455cd4 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-flash.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-flash.c
>> @@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ void opal_flash_term_callback(void)
>>  {
>>  	struct cpumask mask;
>>  
>> -	if (update_flash_data.status != FLASH_IMG_READY)
>> +	if (update_flash_data.status != FLASH_IMG_READY ||
>> +	    image_data.status != IMAGE_READY)
>>  		return;
>>  
>>  	pr_alert("FLASH: Flashing new firmware\n");
> 
> 



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