[flashrom] [PATCH] Fix eraseblock walking

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Nov 23 03:26:37 CET 2009


Fix eraseblock walking and add a few more checks to make sure such bugs
get caught in the future. I found this bug during a code review.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Index: flashrom-blockerase_walk_fix/flashrom.c
===================================================================
--- flashrom-blockerase_walk_fix/flashrom.c	(Revision 769)
+++ flashrom-blockerase_walk_fix/flashrom.c	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -563,10 +563,11 @@
 int erase_flash(struct flashchip *flash)
 {
 	int i, j, k, ret = 0, found = 0;
+	unsigned int start, len;
 
 	printf("Erasing flash chip... ");
 	for (k = 0; k < NUM_ERASEFUNCTIONS; k++) {
-		unsigned long done = 0;
+		unsigned int done = 0;
 		struct block_eraser eraser = flash->block_erasers[k];
 
 		printf_debug("Looking at blockwise erase function %i... ", k);
@@ -594,13 +595,23 @@
 			 * members so the loop below won't be executed for them.
 			 */
 			for (j = 0; j < eraser.eraseblocks[i].count; j++) {
-				ret = eraser.block_erase(flash, done + eraser.eraseblocks[i].size * j, eraser.eraseblocks[i].size);
+				start = done + eraser.eraseblocks[i].size * j;
+				len = eraser.eraseblocks[i].size;
+				printf_debug("0x%06x-0x%06x, ", start, len);
+				ret = eraser.block_erase(flash, start, len);
 				if (ret)
 					break;
 			}
 			if (ret)
 				break;
+			done += eraser.eraseblocks[i].count *
+				eraser.eraseblocks[i].size;
 		}
+		printf_debug("\n");
+		if (done != flash->total_size * 1024)
+			fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Erase region walking erased "
+				"0x%06x bytes total, expected 0x%06x bytes.",
+				done, flash->total_size * 1024);
 		/* If everything is OK, don't try another erase function. */
 		if (!ret)
 			break;


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