[PATCH] mtd: cfi: Fixed endless loop problem in CFI when value was written but corrupted.

[Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com (Joakim Tjernlund)]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 00:32 +0000, Przemyslaw Sobon wrote:
> 
> 
> There was an endless loop in CFI Flash driver when a value was written
> incorrectly. In such case chip_ready returns true but chip_good returns
> false and we never get out of the loop.
> 
> The solution was to break the loop in 2 cases, either device is ready or
> device is not ready and timeout elapsed. The correctness of the write is
> checked after the loop ended. That way we ensure the loop always ends.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Sobon <psobon@amazon.com>


hmm, current code was introduced by Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp> to address another problem he had.
See 
   mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change write buffer to check correct value
and
   mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only

I wonder if you need to wrap an extra loop with retries around chip_good to adress the problem Tokunori had.

Tokunori, what do you think ?

Jocke
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
> index 72428b6bfc47..6cc31d2057e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
> @@ -1879,15 +1879,18 @@ static int __xipram do_write_buffer(struct map_info *map, struct flchip *chip,
>                 if (time_after(jiffies, timeo) && !chip_ready(map, adr))
>                         break;
> 
> -               if (chip_good(map, adr, datum)) {
> -                       xip_enable(map, chip, adr);
> -                       goto op_done;
> -               }
> +               if (chip_ready(map, adr))
> +                       break;
> 
>                 /* Latency issues. Drop the lock, wait a while and retry */
>                 UDELAY(map, chip, adr, 1);
>         }
> 
> +       if (chip_good(map, adr, datum)) {
> +               xip_enable(map, chip, adr);
> +               goto op_done;
> +       }
> +
>         /*
>          * Recovery from write-buffer programming failures requires
>          * the write-to-buffer-reset sequence.  Since the last part
> --
> 2.16.5
> 
> 
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