Patch "mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mtd-spi-nor-fix-spansion-quad-enable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 807c16253319ee6ccf8873ae64f070f7eb532cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jo=C3=ABl=20Esponde?= <joel.esponde@honeywell.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:47:40 +0100
Subject: mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable
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From: Joël Esponde <joel.esponde@honeywell.com>

commit 807c16253319ee6ccf8873ae64f070f7eb532cd5 upstream.

With the S25FL127S nor flash part, each writing to the configuration
register takes hundreds of ms. During that  time, no more accesses to
the flash should be done (even reads).

This commit adds a wait loop after the register writing until the flash
finishes its work.

This issue could make rootfs mounting fail when the latter was done too
much closely to this quad enable bit setting step. And in this case, a
driver as UBIFS may try to recover the filesystem and may broke it
completely.

Signed-off-by: Joël Esponde <joel.esponde@honeywell.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
@@ -864,6 +864,13 @@ static int spansion_quad_enable(struct s
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	ret = spi_nor_wait_till_ready(nor);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(nor->dev,
+			"timeout while writing configuration register\n");
+		return ret;
+	}
+
 	/* read back and check it */
 	ret = read_cr(nor);
 	if (!(ret > 0 && (ret & CR_QUAD_EN_SPAN))) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joel.esponde@honeywell.com are

queue-3.18/mtd-spi-nor-fix-spansion-quad-enable.patch