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>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 8bb8ebd62aaac83e7284bbe5c92931f0717231b3..928081bbdafd59bcac66855bee3e1f7f93456d74 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -4167,7 +4167,7 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
                        ecc->write_oob = nand_write_oob_std;
                if (!ecc->read_subpage)
                        ecc->read_subpage = nand_read_subpage;
-               if (!ecc->write_subpage)
+               if (!ecc->write_subpage && ecc->hwctl && ecc->calculate)
                        ecc->write_subpage = nand_write_subpage_hwecc;
 
        case NAND_ECC_HW_SYNDROME: