Re: [PATCH] mmc: block: Check for errors after write on SPI

From: andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 14:44:53 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:21:34PM +0000, Christian Löhle wrote:
> Introduce a SEND_STATUS check for writes through SPI to not mark
> an unsuccessful write as successful.
>
> Since SPI SD/MMC does not have states, after a write, the card will
> just hold the line LOW until it is ready again. The driver marks the
> write therefore as completed as soon as it reads something other than
> all zeroes.
> The driver does not distinguish from a card no longer signalling busy
> and it being disconnected (and the line being pulled-up by the host).
> This lead to writes being marked as successful when disconnecting
> a busy card.
> Now the card is ensured to be still connected by an additional CMD13,
> just like non-SPI is ensured to go back to TRAN state.
>
> While at it and since we already poll for the post-write status anyway,
> we might as well check for SPIs error bits (any of them).
>
> The disconnecting card problem is reproducable for me after continuous
> write activity and randomly disconnecting, around every 20-50 tries
> on SPI DS for some card.

...

> + if (mmc_host_is_spi(card->host)) {
> + u32 status = 0;

> + err = __mmc_send_status(card, &status, 0);

> + /* All R1 and R2 bits of SPI are errors in our case */
> + if (status)
> + err = err ? err : -EIO;

I would use either this:

if (err || status) {
mqrq->brq.data.bytes_xfered = 0;

if (err)
return err;
return -EIO;
}

return 0;

or at least this:

err = err ?: -EIO;

or even this:

if (!err && status)
err = -EIO;

(Personally I would choose the first option)


> + if (err)
> + mqrq->brq.data.bytes_xfered = 0;
> + return err;
> + }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko