From: Itai Handler <itai.handler@gmail.com>
To: mwalle@kernel.org, pratyush@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
vigneshr@ti.com, richard@nod.at, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com,
takahiro.kuwano@infineon.com,
Itai Handler <itai.handler@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: take the flash lock in spi_nor_remove()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:44:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910184452.895485-3-itai.handler@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910184452.895485-1-itai.handler@gmail.com>
spi_nor_remove() restores the addressing mode with the same unlocked
call to spi_nor_restore() that spi_nor_shutdown() used before the
previous patch, and it is exposed the same way: the MTD device is still
registered at that point, so an unbind can run the restore while another
thread is in the middle of an operation. A busy flash silently ignores
the restore, and a restore that lands between two chunks of a read
switches the chip to 3-byte addressing while the driver keeps sending
4 address bytes.
Moving the restore after mtd_device_unregister() would not fix this.
Since commit 19bfa9ebebb5 ("mtd: use refcount to prevent corruption")
del_mtd_device() drops a reference instead of refusing with -EBUSY when
the device is in use, so unregistering returns right away and does not
wait for an operation that is already running.
Take nor->lock for the restore, as spi_nor_shutdown() now does. The
unregister stays unconditional, so a flash whose restore had to be
skipped is still torn down.
Fixes: 59b356ffd0b0 ("mtd: m25p80: restore the status of SPI flash when exiting")
Signed-off-by: Itai Handler <itai.handler@gmail.com>
---
drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
index 96dd6ae6d619..51128c94d1ce 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
@@ -3852,8 +3852,14 @@ static int spi_nor_probe(struct spi_mem *spimem)
static int spi_nor_remove(struct spi_mem *spimem)
{
struct spi_nor *nor = spi_mem_get_drvdata(spimem);
+ int ret;
- spi_nor_restore(nor);
+ /* As in spi_nor_shutdown(), do not restore under an operation. */
+ ret = spi_nor_prep_and_lock(nor);
+ if (!ret) {
+ spi_nor_restore(nor);
+ spi_nor_unlock_and_unprep(nor);
+ }
/* Clean up MTD stuff. */
return mtd_device_unregister(&nor->mtd);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 18:44 [PATCH 0/2] mtd: spi-nor: fix the unlocked restore on shutdown and remove Itai Handler
2026-09-10 18:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: take the flash lock in spi_nor_shutdown() Itai Handler
2026-09-10 19:01 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-10 18:44 ` Itai Handler [this message]
2026-09-10 19:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: take the flash lock in spi_nor_remove() sashiko-bot
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