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Helmut Schaa committed 44991b3d19c
mtd: nand: Disable subpage writes for drivers without ecc->hwctl
nand_write_subpage_hwecc causes a crash if the driver did not register
ecc->hwctl or ecc->calculate. Fix this by disabling subpage writes if
ecc->hwctl or ecc->calculate is not provided by the driver.
This behavior was introduced in commit 837a6ba4f3b6d23026674e6af6b6849a4634fff9
"mtd: nand: subpage write support for hardware based ECC schemes".
This fixes a crash with fsl_elbc_nand and maybe others:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for instruction fetch
Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=2 P1020 RDB
Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common pppoe ppp_async option iptable_nat ath9k_hw ath usb_wwan pppox ppp_generic nf_nat_ipv4 nf_conntrack_ipv4 mac80211 ipt_MASQUERADE cfg80211 xt_time xt_tcpudp xt_state xt_quota xt_policy xt_pkttype xt_owner xt_nat xt_multiport xt_mh
CPU: 1 PID: 2161 Comm: ubiformat Not tainted 3.10.26 #6
task: efbc2700 ti: c7950000 task.ti: c7950000
NIP: 00000000 LR: c01a495c CTR: 00000000
REGS: c7951cb0 TRAP: 0400 Not tainted (3.10.26)
MSR: 00029000 <CE,EE,ME> CR: 24002028 XER: 00000000
GPR00: c01a4b6c c7951d60 efbc2700 ef84b000 00000001 00000000 000001ff c7800500
GPR08: 00000000 00000000 efae5e40 c01a4ae4 24002022 10023418 c7951e5c c7800500
GPR16: c017b6a8 00000000 0000003f c053404c 00000000 00000004 00000000 00000003
GPR24: 00000010 00000200 ef84b000 c7800d00 c7800000 c7800500 ef84b1c8 00000000
NIP [00000000] (null)
LR [c01a495c] nand_write_subpage_hwecc+0x74/0x174
Call Trace:
[c7951d60] [c7951d64] 0xc7951d64 (unreliable)
[c7951da0] [c01a4b6c] nand_write_page+0x88/0x198
[c7951dd0] [c01a5f7c] nand_do_write_ops+0x2f4/0x39c
[c7951e40] [c01a61e0] nand_write+0x58/0x84
[c7951e80] [c019e29c] mtdchar_write+0x1dc/0x28c
[c7951ef0] [c00aba84] vfs_write+0xcc/0x1ac
[c7951f10] [c00ac04c] SyS_write+0x4c/0x90
[c7951f40] [c000cd84] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
--- Exception: c01 at 0x48050ed8
LR = 0x100071b8
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
---[ end trace 161d3c65a2a15cb8 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[Brian: editorial note - we've applied a previous fix for the driver in
question (fsl_elbc_nand) long ago:
commit f034d87def51 ("mtd: eLBC NAND: fix subpage write support")
but this still makes sense, and it could solve issues on some other
unforseen driver.]
Cc: Pekon Gupta <pekon.gupta@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>