linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix mtd not registered due to nvmem name collision

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Date:   Mon, 18 May 2020 16:01:47 +0200
From:   Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo@...alda.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
        Alban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix mtd not registered due to nvmem name collision

Hi

This is just a friendly ping after two weeks ;)

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:44 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo@...alda.com> wrote on Thu, 30 Apr 2020
> 15:17:21 +0200:
>
> > From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@...nel.org>
> >
> > When the nvmem framework is enabled, a nvmem device is created per mtd
> > device/partition.
> >
> > It is not uncommon that a device can have multiple mtd devices with
> > partitions that have the same name. Eg, when there DT overlay is allowed
> > and the same device with mtd is attached twice.
> >
> > Under that circumstances, the mtd fails to register due to a name
> > duplication on the nvmem framework.
> >
> > With this patch we use the mtdX name instead of the partition name,
> > which is unique.
> >
> > [    8.948991] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/nvmem/devices/Production Data'
> > [    8.948992] CPU: 7 PID: 246 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.5.0-qtec-standard #13
> > [    8.948993] Hardware name: AMD Dibbler/Dibbler, BIOS 05.22.04.0019 10/26/2019
> > [    8.948994] Call Trace:
> > [    8.948996]  dump_stack+0x50/0x70
> > [    8.948998]  sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x17/0x2d
> > [    8.949000]  sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.0+0xc2/0xd0
> > [    8.949002]  bus_add_device+0x74/0x140
> > [    8.949004]  device_add+0x34b/0x850
> > [    8.949006]  nvmem_register.part.0+0x1bf/0x640
> > ...
> > [    8.948926] mtd mtd8: Failed to register NVMEM device
> >
> > Fixes: c4dfa25ab307 ("mtd: add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API")
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > index 2916674208b3..29d41003d6e0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ static int mtd_nvmem_add(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> >
> >       config.id = -1;
> >       config.dev = &mtd->dev;
> > -     config.name = mtd->name;
> > +     config.name = dev_name(&mtd->dev);
> >       config.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> >       config.reg_read = mtd_nvmem_reg_read;
> >       config.size = mtd->size;
>
> We hope this will definitely fix the NVMEM duplicate name issue. If it
> does not reliably, we might want to revert this patch and create an MTD
> unique ID field which, for each MTD device, concatenates the name of
> its parent and its own mtd->name.
>
> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Miquèl



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Ricardo Ribalda