Re: [PATCH 02/28] [v2] mtd: mtk: avoid warning in mtk_ecc_encode

[Boris Brezillon]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:05:31 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When building with -Wmaybe-uninitialized, gcc produces a silly false positive
> warning for the mtk_ecc_encode function:
> 
> drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c: In function 'mtk_ecc_encode':
> drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c:402:15: error: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The function for some reason contains a double byte swap on big-endian
> builds to get the OOB data into the correct order again, and is written
> in a slightly confusing way.
> 
> Using a simple memcpy32_fromio() to read the data simplifies it a lot
> so it becomes more readable and produces no warning. However, the
> output might not have 32-bit alignment, so we have to use another
> memcpy to avoid taking alignment faults or writing beyond the end
> of the array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Jorge, RogerCC, can I have an Acked-by and/or Tested-by for this patch?

> ---
> v2: move temporary buffer into struct mtk_ecc instead of having it
>     on the stack, as suggested by Boris Brezillon
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c | 19 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c
> index d54f666..dbf2562 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_ecc.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ struct mtk_ecc {
>  	struct completion done;
>  	struct mutex lock;
>  	u32 sectors;
> +
> +	u8 eccdata[112];
>  };
>  
>  static inline void mtk_ecc_wait_idle(struct mtk_ecc *ecc,
> @@ -366,9 +368,8 @@ int mtk_ecc_encode(struct mtk_ecc *ecc, struct mtk_ecc_config *config,
>  		   u8 *data, u32 bytes)
>  {
>  	dma_addr_t addr;
> -	u8 *p;
> -	u32 len, i, val;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	u32 len;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	addr = dma_map_single(ecc->dev, data, bytes, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>  	ret = dma_mapping_error(ecc->dev, addr);
> @@ -393,14 +394,12 @@ int mtk_ecc_encode(struct mtk_ecc *ecc, struct mtk_ecc_config *config,
>  
>  	/* Program ECC bytes to OOB: per sector oob = FDM + ECC + SPARE */
>  	len = (config->strength * ECC_PARITY_BITS + 7) >> 3;
> -	p = data + bytes;
>  
> -	/* write the parity bytes generated by the ECC back to the OOB region */
> -	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> -		if ((i % 4) == 0)
> -			val = readl(ecc->regs + ECC_ENCPAR(i / 4));
> -		p[i] = (val >> ((i % 4) * 8)) & 0xff;
> -	}
> +	/* write the parity bytes generated by the ECC back to temp buffer */
> +	__ioread32_copy(ecc->eccdata, ecc->regs + ECC_ENCPAR(0), round_up(len, 4));
> +
> +	/* copy into possibly unaligned OOB region with actual length */
> +	memcpy(data + bytes, ecc->eccdata, len);
>  timeout:
>  
>  	dma_unmap_single(ecc->dev, addr, bytes, DMA_TO_DEVICE);