linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] mtd: spi-nor: Fix Cadence QSPI page fault kernel panic

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:02:03 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     thor.thayer@...ux.intel.com, marek.vasut@...il.com,
        dwmw2@...radead.org, computersforpeace@...il.com,
        boris.brezillon@...tlin.com, richard@....at
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mtd: spi-nor: Fix Cadence QSPI page fault kernel panic

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 14:25:49 UTC, thor.thayer@...ux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> The current Cadence QSPI driver caused a kernel panic sporadically
> when writing to QSPI. The problem was caused by writing more bytes
> than needed because the QSPI operated on 4 bytes at a time.
> <snip>
> [   11.202044] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bffd3000
> [   11.209254] pgd = e463054d
> [   11.211948] [bffd3000] *pgd=2fffb811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> [   11.218202] Internal error: Oops: 7 [#1] SMP ARM
> [   11.222797] Modules linked in:
> [   11.225844] CPU: 1 PID: 1317 Comm: systemd-hwdb Not tainted 4.17.7-d0c45cd44a8f
> [   11.235796] Hardware name: Altera SOCFPGA Arria10
> [   11.240487] PC is at __raw_writesl+0x70/0xd4
> [   11.244741] LR is at cqspi_write+0x1a0/0x2cc
> </snip>
> On a page boundary limit the number of bytes copied from the tx buffer
> to remain within the page.
> 
> This patch uses a temporary buffer to hold the 4 bytes to write and then
> copies only the bytes required from the tx buffer.
> 
> Reported-by: Adrian Amborzewicz <adrian.ambrozewicz@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@...ux.intel.com>

Applied to http://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd.git master, thanks.

Boris