Re: [PATCH] mtd: jedec_probe: Fix crash in jedec_read_mfr()

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

On Sat,  3 Mar 2018 23:29:03 +0100
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> It turns out that the loop where we read manufacturer
> jedec_read_mfd() can under some circumstances get a
> CFI_MFR_CONTINUATION repeatedly, making the loop go
> over all banks and eventually hit the end of the
> map and crash because of an access violation:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4980000
> pgd = (ptrval)
> [c4980000] *pgd=03808811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 7 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1+ #150
> Hardware name: Gemini (Device Tree)
> PC is at jedec_probe_chip+0x6ec/0xcd0
> LR is at 0x4
> pc : [<c03a2bf4>]    lr : [<00000004>]    psr: 60000013
> sp : c382dd18  ip : 0000ffff  fp : 00000000
> r10: c0626388  r9 : 00020000  r8 : c0626340
> r7 : 00000000  r6 : 00000001  r5 : c3a71afc  r4 : c382dd70
> r3 : 00000001  r2 : c4900000  r1 : 00000002  r0 : 00080000
> Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
> Control: 0000397f  Table: 00004000  DAC: 00000053
> Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
> 
> Fix this by breaking the loop with a return 0 if
> the offset exceeds the map size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Applied.

Also added:

Fixes: 5c9c11e1c47c ("[MTD] [NOR] Add support for flash chips with ID in bank other than 0")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

I'll send a fixes PR to Linus soon.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
> index 7c0b27d132b1..b479bd81120b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
> @@ -1889,6 +1889,8 @@ static inline u32 jedec_read_mfr(struct map_info *map, uint32_t base,
>  	do {
>  		uint32_t ofs = cfi_build_cmd_addr(0 + (bank << 8), map, cfi);
>  		mask = (1 << (cfi->device_type * 8)) - 1;
> +		if (ofs >= map->size)
> +			return 0;
>  		result = map_read(map, base + ofs);
>  		bank++;
>  	} while ((result.x[0] & mask) == CFI_MFR_CONTINUATION);



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