This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: map: fixed bug in 64-bit systems
to the 3.12-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-map-fixed-bug-in-64-bit-systems.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a4d62babf988fe5dfde24437fa135ef147bc7aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Haitao <wang.haitao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:32:38 +0800
Subject: mtd: map: fixed bug in 64-bit systems
From: Wang Haitao <wang.haitao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a4d62babf988fe5dfde24437fa135ef147bc7aa0 upstream.
Hardware:
CPU: XLP832,the 64-bit OS
NOR Flash:S29GL128S 128M
Software:
Kernel:2.6.32.41
Filesystem:JFFS2
When writing files, errors appear:
Write len 182 but return retlen 180
Write of 182 bytes at 0x072c815c failed. returned -5, retlen 180
Write len 186 but return retlen 184
Write of 186 bytes at 0x072caff4 failed. returned -5, retlen 184
These errors exist only in 64-bit systems,not in 32-bit systems. After analysis, we
found that the left shift operation is wrong in map_word_load_partial. For instance:
unsigned char buf[3] ={0x9e,0x3a,0xea};
map_bankwidth(map) is 4;
for (i=0; i < 3; i++) {
int bitpos;
bitpos = (map_bankwidth(map)-1-i)*8;
orig.x[0] &= ~(0xff << bitpos);
orig.x[0] |= buf[i] << bitpos;
}
The value of orig.x[0] is expected to be 0x9e3aeaff, but in this situation(64-bit
System) we'll get the wrong value of 0xffffffff9e3aeaff due to the 64-bit sign
extension:
buf[i] is defined as "unsigned char" and the left-shift operation will convert it
to the type of "signed int", so when left-shift buf[i] by 24 bits, the final result
will get the wrong value: 0xffffffff9e3aeaff.
If the left-shift bits are less than 24, then sign extension will not occur. Whereas
the bankwidth of the nor flash we used is 4, therefore this BUG emerges.
Signed-off-by: Pang Xunlei <pang.xunlei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <zhang.yi20@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lu Zhongjun <lu.zhongjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mtd/map.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mtd/map.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/map.h
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ static inline map_word map_word_load_par
bitpos = (map_bankwidth(map)-1-i)*8;
#endif
orig.x[0] &= ~(0xff << bitpos);
- orig.x[0] |= buf[i-start] << bitpos;
+ orig.x[0] |= (unsigned long)buf[i-start] << bitpos;
}
}
return orig;
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static inline map_word map_word_ff(struc
if (map_bankwidth(map) < MAP_FF_LIMIT) {
int bw = 8 * map_bankwidth(map);
- r.x[0] = (1 << bw) - 1;
+ r.x[0] = (1UL << bw) - 1;
} else {
for (i=0; i<map_words(map); i++)
r.x[i] = ~0UL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wang.haitao1@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/mtd-map-fixed-bug-in-64-bit-systems.patch
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