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From: "Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Cosmin Tanislav <cosmin.tanislav@analog.com>,
	<linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: max310x: work around regmap->regcache data corruption
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:29:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430727d2-7e88-4de2-97ab-e841656d7915@cesnet.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vc4tB_CuT-e+gofanWK=mss-k_A-mqPo-8+Rv-aQ8tu_w@mail.gmail.com>

On pátek 1. prosince 2023 18:02:32 CET, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 6:21 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote:
>> 
>>> The TL;DR summary is that the regmap_noinc_write spills over the data
>>> that are correctly written to the HW also to the following registers in
>>> the regcache. As a result, regcache then contains user-controlled
>>> garbage which will be used later for bit updates on unrelated registers.
>> 
>>> I was investigating a regression that happened somewhere between 5.12.4
>>> (plus 14 of our patches) and v6.5.9 (plus 7 of our patches). Our
>> 
>> Can you reproduce this with current kernels?  That's not even an up to
>> date v6.5 - we're up to v6.5.13 now from the looks of things including
>> one upstream fix that looks potentially relevant.
>
> Indeed, the 984a4afdc87a ("regmap: prevent noinc writes from
> clobbering cache") seems quite relevant.

Thank you, Andy, this is indeed the real fix.

Sorry that I missed it, Mark. I spent many days on this one over a longer 
period of time, so I haven't noticed that a fix was merged in the 
meanwhile. I was just very happy that I debugged something which looked 
like a real puzzle at the beginning :).

Cheers,
Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-02 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01 14:51 Jan Kundrát
2023-12-01 16:14 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-12-01 16:23   ` Mark Brown
2023-12-01 16:21 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-01 17:02   ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-12-02 10:29     ` Jan Kundrát [this message]
2023-12-01 18:27 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-01 18:34   ` Mark Brown
2023-12-01 21:38     ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-01 21:41       ` Mark Brown
2023-12-01 22:16         ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 16:29           ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 16:35             ` Mark Brown
2023-12-04 17:01               ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 17:19                 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-04 18:59                   ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 19:16                     ` Mark Brown
2023-12-04 19:41                       ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 19:48                         ` Mark Brown
2023-12-04 20:02                           ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-04 22:09                             ` Mark Brown
2023-12-05 15:52     ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-12-05 16:00       ` Mark Brown
2023-12-01 21:40   ` Hugo Villeneuve

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