Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:53:07 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: limit OTP NVMEM Cell parse to non Nand devices | From | Rafał Miłecki <> |
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On 27.03.2024 15:36, Christian Marangi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:26:55PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> On 2024-03-22 05:09, Christian Marangi wrote: >>> MTD OTP logic is very fragile and can be problematic with some specific >>> kind of devices. >>> >>> NVMEM across the years had various iteration on how Cells could be >>> declared in DT and MTD OTP probably was left behind and >>> add_legacy_fixed_of_cells was enabled without thinking of the >>> consequences. >> >> Er... thank you? >> > > Probably made some bad assumption and sorry for it!
No problem :)
>>> That option enables NVMEM to scan the provided of_node and treat each >>> child as a NVMEM Cell, this was to support legacy NVMEM implementation >>> and don't cause regression. >>> >>> This is problematic if we have devices like Nand where the OTP is >>> triggered by setting a special mode in the flash. In this context real >>> partitions declared in the Nand node are registered as OTP Cells and >>> this cause probe fail with -EINVAL error. >>> >>> This was never notice due to the fact that till now, no Nand supported >>> the OTP feature. With commit e87161321a40 ("mtd: rawnand: macronix: OTP >>> access for MX30LFxG18AC") this changed and coincidentally this Nand is >>> used on an FritzBox 7530 supported on OpenWrt. >> >> So as you noticed this problem was *exposed* by adding OTP support for >> Macronix NAND chips. >> >> >>> Alternative and more robust way to declare OTP Cells are already >>> prossible by using the fixed-layout node or by declaring a child node >>> with the compatible set to "otp-user" or "otp-factory". >>> >>> To fix this and limit any regression with other MTD that makes use of >>> declaring OTP as direct child of the dev node, disable >>> add_legacy_fixed_of_cells if we detect the MTD type is Nand. >>> >>> With the following logic, the OTP NVMEM entry is correctly created with >>> no Cells and the MTD Nand is correctly probed and partitions are >>> correctly exposed. >>> >>> Fixes: 2cc3b37f5b6d ("nvmem: add explicit config option to read old >>> syntax fixed OF cells") >> >> It's not that commit however that introduced the problem. Introducing >> "add_legacy_fixed_of_cells" just added a clean way of enabling parsing >> of old cells syntax. Even before my commit NVMEM subsystem was looking >> for NVMEM cells in NAND devices. >> >> I booted kernel 6.6 which has commit e87161321a40 ("mtd: rawnand: >> macronix: OTP > access for MX30LFxG18AC") but does NOT have commit >> 2cc3b37f5b6d ("nvmem: add explicit config option to read old syntax >> fixed OF cells"). >> >> Look at this log from Broadcom Northstar (Linux 6.6): >> [ 0.410107] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xc2, Chip ID: 0xdc >> [ 0.416531] nand: Macronix MX30LF4G18AC >> [ 0.420409] nand: 512 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB >> size: 64 >> [ 0.428022] iproc_nand 18028000.nand-controller: detected 512MiB total, >> 128KiB blocks, 2KiB pages, 16B OOB, 8-bit, BCH-8 >> [ 0.438991] Scanning device for bad blocks >> [ 0.873598] Bad eraseblock 738 at 0x000005c40000 >> [ 1.030279] random: crng init done >> [ 1.854895] Bad eraseblock 2414 at 0x000012dc0000 >> [ 2.657354] Bad eraseblock 3783 at 0x00001d8e0000 >> [ 2.662967] Bad eraseblock 3785 at 0x00001d920000 >> [ 2.848418] nvmem user-otp1: nvmem: invalid reg on >> /nand-controller@18028000/nand@0 >> [ 2.856126] iproc_nand 18028000.nand-controller: error -EINVAL: Failed to >> register OTP NVMEM device >> >> So to summary it up: >> 1. Problem exists since much earlier and wasn't introduced by 2cc3b37f5b6d >> 2. Commit 2cc3b37f5b6d just gives you a clean way of solving this issue >> 3. Problem was exposed by commit e87161321a40 >> 4. We miss fix for v6.6 which doesn't have 2cc3b37f5b6d (it hit v6.7) >> > > So the thing was broken all along? Maybe the regression was introduced > when OF support for NVMEM cell was introduced? (and OF scan was enabled > by default?)
I went back to the commit 4b361cfa8624 ("mtd: core: add OTP nvmem provider support") from 2021 (it went into 5.14). It seems that even back then nvmem_register() used to call nvmem_add_cells_from_of(). SO maybe this problem is as old as that?
> Anyway Sorry for adding the wrong fixes, maybe Miquel can remote the > commit from mtd/fixes and fix the problematic fixes tag? > >> >>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> >>> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> >
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