linux-kernel - [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Add documentation for spi_nor_soft

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 15:09:58 +0530
From:   Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>
To:     Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>
CC:     Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>, Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Add documentation for spi_nor_soft_reset()

Document what the function does and that it should only be used when it
is known that the device supports it. This will avoid unaware
programmers thinking that they can arbitrarily use it to reset the
device.

Suggested-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>

---

 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
index 265d8b25fc7f..59e207f2e0e3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
@@ -2988,6 +2988,21 @@ static int spi_nor_init(struct spi_nor *nor)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * spi_nor_soft_reset() - Perform a software reset
+ * @nor:	pointer to 'struct spi_nor'
+ *
+ * Performs a "Soft Reset and Enter Default Protocol Mode" sequence which resets
+ * the device to its power-on-reset state. This is useful when the software has
+ * made some changes to device (volatile) registers and needs to reset it before
+ * shutting down, for example.
+ *
+ * Not every flash supports this sequence. The same set of opcodes might be used
+ * for some other operation on a flash that does not support this. Support for
+ * this sequence can be discovered via SFDP in the BFPT table.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, -errno otherwise.
+ */
 static void spi_nor_soft_reset(struct spi_nor *nor)
 {
 	struct spi_mem_op op;
-- 
2.30.0