[Skiboot] [PATCH] external/pflash: Fix erasing within a single erase block

Cyril Bur cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com
Fri Nov 17 11:02:45 AEDT 2017


It is possible to erase within a single erase block. Currently the
pflash code assumes that if the erase starts part way into an erase
block it is because it needs to be aligned up to the boundary with the
next erase block.

Doing an erase smaller than a single erase block will cause underflows
and looping forever on erase.

Fixes: ae6cb86c2 ("external/pflash: Reinstate the progress bars")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
---
Side note, this bug is only possible on 64K erase granule platforms.
Also, this bug cannot be caught by our test suite as it stands because
the test suite tests with the file backend to blocklevel and it has an
erase granule of one. I'll have a think about perhaps adding changes so
that we might be able to catch this.
---
 external/pflash/pflash.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 libflash/libflash.c      |  4 ----
 libflash/libflash.h      |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/external/pflash/pflash.c b/external/pflash/pflash.c
index d6b2b8ec..381df24f 100644
--- a/external/pflash/pflash.c
+++ b/external/pflash/pflash.c
@@ -325,16 +325,20 @@ static int erase_range(struct flash_details *flash,
 	 */
 	progress_init(size);
 	if (start & erase_mask) {
-		/* Align to next erase block */
-		rc = blocklevel_smart_erase(flash->bl, start,
-				flash->erase_granule - (start & erase_mask));
+		/*
+		 * Align to next erase block, or just do the entire
+		 * thing if we fit within one erase block
+		 */
+		uint32_t first_size = MIN(size, (flash->erase_granule - (start & erase_mask)));
+
+		rc = blocklevel_smart_erase(flash->bl, start, first_size);
 		if (rc) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "Failed to blocklevel_smart_erase(): %d\n", rc);
 			return 1;
 		}
-		size -= flash->erase_granule - (start & erase_mask);
-		done = flash->erase_granule - (start & erase_mask);
-		start += flash->erase_granule - (start & erase_mask);
+		size -= first_size;
+		done = first_size;
+		start += first_size;
 	}
 	progress_tick(done);
 	while (size & ~(erase_mask)) {
diff --git a/libflash/libflash.c b/libflash/libflash.c
index bf2e58e3..ad25b613 100644
--- a/libflash/libflash.c
+++ b/libflash/libflash.c
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
 #include "ecc.h"
 #include "blocklevel.h"
 
-#ifndef MIN
-#define MIN(a, b)	((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
-#endif
-
 static const struct flash_info flash_info[] = {
 	{ 0xc22018, 0x01000000, FL_ERASE_ALL | FL_CAN_4B, "Macronix MXxxL12835F"},
 	{ 0xc22019, 0x02000000, FL_ERASE_ALL | FL_CAN_4B, "Macronix MXxxL25635F"},
diff --git a/libflash/libflash.h b/libflash/libflash.h
index ff3a9823..01b4d605 100644
--- a/libflash/libflash.h
+++ b/libflash/libflash.h
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
  */
 #include <libflash/errors.h>
 
+#ifndef MIN
+#define MIN(a, b)	((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
+#endif
+
 /* Flash chip, opaque */
 struct flash_chip;
 struct spi_flash_ctrl;
-- 
2.15.0



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