Re: [PATCH] spi: fsl-cpm: Check length parity before switching to 16 bit mode

From: Christophe Leroy

Date: Thu Nov 20 2025 - 03:50:41 EST




Le 10/11/2025 à 14:07, Sverdlin, Alexander a écrit :
Hi Christophe,

just a couple of nitpicks below:

On Sun, 2025-11-09 at 19:55 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Commit fc96ec826bce ("spi: fsl-cpm: Use 16 bit mode for large transfers
with even size") failed to checkout that the size is really even before
^^^^^^^^
check/verify/"make sure"?

make sure


switching to 16 bit mode. Until recently the problem went unnoticed
because kernfs uses a pre-allocated bounce buffer of size PAGE_SIZE for
reading eeprom.
^^^^^^
EEPROM?

ack


But commit 8ad6249c51d0 ("eeprom: at25: convert to spi-mem API")
introduced an additional dynamically allocated bounce buffer whose size
is exactly the size of the transfer, leading to a buffer overrun in
the fsl-cpm driver when that size is odd.

Add the missing length parity verification and remain in 8 bit mode
when the length is not even.

Fixes: fc96ec826bce ("spi: fsl-cpm: Use 16 bit mode for large transfers with even size")

Missing Cc: stable@?

Nowadays Fixes: tag seems to be enough to get a fix automagically applied to stable branches, but I added it anyway.


Closes: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fall%2F638496dd-ec60-4e53-bad7-eb657f67d580%40csgroup.eu%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C5ac2e78d2c44433141df08de205a1e5a%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638983768580305289%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=juGQhU%2F%2Fp52t9hPZ5PA0Ka8Ng3ITKNoF%2Bf1%2FP93IkOw%3D&reserved=0
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c
index 2f2082652a1a2..e845baa56cc66 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int fsl_spi_prepare_message(struct spi_controller *ctlr,
  if (t->bits_per_word == 16 || t->bits_per_word == 32)
  t->bits_per_word = 8; /* pretend its 8 bits */
  if (t->bits_per_word == 8 && t->len >= 256 &&
-     (mpc8xxx_spi->flags & SPI_CPM1))
+     ((t->len & 1) == 0) && (mpc8xxx_spi->flags & SPI_CPM1))

could be written as "!(t->len & 1) && "...

Done.


  t->bits_per_word = 16;
  }
  }

You can add my RB tag into your v2.


Thanks
Christophe