Re: [PATCH 1/2] bus: mbus: fix window size calculation for 4GB windows

From: Gregory CLEMENT
Date: Tue Sep 19 2017 - 10:43:25 EST


Hi Jan,

On lun., aoÃt 28 2017, Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At least the Armada XP SoC supports 4GB on a single DRAM window. Because
> the size register values contain the actual size - 1, the MSB is set in
> that case. For example, the SDRAM window's control register's value is
> 0xffffffe1 for 4GB (bits 31 to 24 contain the size).
>
> The MBUS driver reads back each window's size from registers and
> calculates the actual size as (control_reg | ~DDR_SIZE_MASK) + 1, which
> overflows for 32 bit values, resulting in other miscalculations further
> on (a bad RAM window for the CESA crypto engine calculated by
> mvebu_mbus_setup_cpu_target_nooverlap() in my case).
>
> This patch changes the type in 'struct mbus_dram_window' from u32 to
> u64, which allows us to keep using the same register calculation code in
> most MBUS-using drivers (which calculate ->size - 1 again).
>

Your patch looks good, but as it is a fix we should also apply it on
stable, could you provide the commit to fix?

Thanks,

Gregory

> Signed-off-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mbus.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c b/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> index c7f396903184..70db4d5638a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> @@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ mvebu_mbus_default_setup_cpu_target(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus)
> if (mbus->hw_io_coherency)
> w->mbus_attr |= ATTR_HW_COHERENCY;
> w->base = base & DDR_BASE_CS_LOW_MASK;
> - w->size = (size | ~DDR_SIZE_MASK) + 1;
> + w->size = (u64)(size | ~DDR_SIZE_MASK) + 1;
> }
> }
> mvebu_mbus_dram_info.num_cs = cs;
> diff --git a/include/linux/mbus.h b/include/linux/mbus.h
> index 0d3f14fd2621..4773145246ed 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mbus.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mbus.h
> @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ struct mbus_dram_target_info
> struct mbus_dram_window {
> u8 cs_index;
> u8 mbus_attr;
> - u32 base;
> - u32 size;
> + u64 base;
> + u64 size;
> } cs[4];
> };
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>

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